Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 560
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 3, 2007, 12:56 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2007, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2007, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 87 counties
Androscoggin County, ME, Aroostook County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Hancock County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, Washington County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Clinton County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:57 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
90 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 12:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Steuben | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton, Essex | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orleans | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Steuben | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 2:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 19 min |
| Aug 3, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Orleans | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Saratoga | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington | 56 min |
| Aug 3, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 5:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Piscataquis, Somerset | 21 min |
| Aug 3, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison | 13 min |
| Aug 3, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hillsborough | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset, Waldo | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Oxford | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Penobscot | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Waldo | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Aroostook | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 23 min |
| Aug 3, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Otsego | 52 min |
| Aug 3, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAR | Washington | 37 min |
| Aug 3, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Lincoln, Sagadahoc | 47 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aroostook | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 10:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aroostook, Piscataquis, Somerset | 92 min |
| Aug 3, 12:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Penobscot and 4 more | 97 min |
| Aug 3, 3:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Penobscot | 95 min |
| Aug 3, 6:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec and 10 more | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 3:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hampden | 87 min |
| Aug 3, 8:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 3 more | 92 min |
Nearby
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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.