Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2006, 4:21 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2006, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2006, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Herkimer County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 4:15 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 4:15 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 415 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/...HOT AND HUMID RETURNING TO REGION AS RIDGE HAS SHIFTED OFFSHORE AND RETURN FLOW BRINGING INCREASING WARMTH AND HUMIDITY. SHORT WAVES WILL BE MOVING THROUGH MEAN FLOW AND WITH INCREASED HUMIDITY LEVELS AIDING IN INCREASING INSTABILITY SCATTERED CONVECTION IS EXPECTED. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL INCREASE. HAVE JUST OVER AN INCH TODAY WITH AN INCREASE TO AROUND 1.5 INCHES FOR WEDNESDAY AND 1.75 INCHES UP TO POSSIBLY 2 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA FOR THURSDAY. TIMING OF SHORT WAVES VARIES A BIT MODEL TO MODEL BUT THE AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING HOURS MOST FAVORABLE WITH DAYTIME HEATING. HAD WAVE PASS TO OUR NORTH THIS MORNING TRIGGERING A ROUND OF CONVECTION WHICH CLIPPED THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE FORECAST AREA...THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE THIS EVENING PLUS HAVE LAKE BOUNDARY HELPING THINGS AND ANOTHER WEDNESDAY. MORE SUBSTANTIAL TROF WILL APPROACH ON THURSDAY. OVERALL NO BIG CHANGES TO FORECAST...ALREADY HAD VERY WARM/HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WITH CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...LARGE SCALE PATTERN FOR THE PERIOD...TROUGH AMPLIFYING IN THE NORTHWEST WHICH SHOULD FLATTEN OUT BY END OF PERIOD...RIDGING ACROSS THE COUNTRYS MID SECTION WITH A SHALLOW TROUGH OVER THE NORTHEAST. MODEL TRENDS CONTINUE TO SAG FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES REGION AND THE NORTHEAST LATE IN THE WEEK AND OVER THE WEEKEND...BUT AT BIT SLOWER OF A PACE. EXACT TIMING AND POSITION OF FRONT IS DIFFICULT IN MEDIUM RANGE. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHOULD MAKE INTO THROUGH THE NEW YORK METRO AREA LATE SUNDAY BEFORE STALLING JUST TO THE SOUTH EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE BOUNDARY WILL BE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION. SUMMER HEAT AND HUMIDITY AHEAD OF BOUNDARY...WITH CONDITIONS COOLING TO SEASONABLE LEVELS WITH ITS PASSAGE. && .AVIATION /THROUGH 18Z WEDNESDAY/...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREDOMINATE INTO THE LATE NIGHT HOURS WITH SOME MVFR/IFR IN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A MESO CONVECTIVE SYSTEM MOVING INTO WESTERN NEW YORK MAY AFFECT THE REGION THIS EVENING BUT IT IS LIKELY TO WEAKEN AFTER THE SUN GOES DOWN. AFTER MIDNIGHT VISIBILITY WILL BEGIN TO DETERIORATE TO MVFR IN MANY AREAS WITH POCKETS OF IFR DUE TO FOG. THE FOG WILL BURN OFF AN HOUR OR TWO AFTER SUNRISE. HAZE IS LIKELY ON WEDNESDAY BUT FOR THE MOST PART VISIBILITY SHOULD REMAIN 6 MILES OR BETTER. WINDS WILL BE SOUTH 5 TO 10 KNOTS THIS AFTER NOON...BECOME NEARLY CALM TONIGHT...AND BE LIGHT FROM THE SOUTH WEDNESDAY. && .HYDROLOGY...RIVERS AND STREAMS ARE STILL ABOVE NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR BUT ARE FAIRLY LOW. THE HUDSON IS ALMOST A FOOT ABOVE NORMAL BETWEEN HADLEY AND THE ALBANY AREA DUE TO WET CONDITIONS IN THE ADIRONDACKS AND AN UNUSUALLY HIGH RELEASE FROM GREAT SACANDAGA LAKE. LEVELS OF THE MOHAWK RIVER WILL PRETTY MUCH BE BACK TO NORMAL...EXCEPT FOR THE SECTION BETWEEN LOCKS 9 AND 11 WHERE THE WATER LEVEL IS LOW FOR CONSTRUCTION WORK. WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE IN AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. FLOODING OF RIVERS AND LARGER STREAMS IS NOT EXPECTED BUT HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALLER STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS AND IS LIKELY TO CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. && .ALY WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CT...NONE. MA...NONE. NY...NONE. VT...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 2:21 PM EDT, 2 hours before
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</html>In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:17 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 417 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006 NYZ033-252045- HAMILTON NY- 417 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN HAMILTON COUNTY... AT 411 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...SMALL HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTH OF INDIAN LAKE...OR ABOUT OVER SPECULATOR. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. SNYDER
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:18 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 418 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006 NYZ033-252045- HAMILTON NY- 418 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN HAMILTON COUNTY... AT 411 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...SMALL HAIL...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF INDIAN LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE DURANT CAMPGROUND BY 425 PM EDT INDIAN LAKE BY 435 PM EDT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 7:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.