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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Albany, NY

June 24, 2008Rensselaer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2008, 4:02 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 41 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
Jun 24, 2008, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2008, 4:43 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Rensselaer County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 43 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
43 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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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 Jun 24, 3:38 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:38 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 10:34 AM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1034 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 2008

CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-
082>084-VTZ013>015-251100-
NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE-
SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-
SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA-NORTHERN WARREN-
NORTHERN WASHINGTON-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY-
EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY-EASTERN ALBANY-
WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER-WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-
WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA-WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-
WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS-NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN-
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM-
1034 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN
CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND
SOUTHERN VERMONT.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED WITH
THE PASSAGE OF AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE NOT LIKELY TO BECOME SEVERE...ALTHOUGH A FEW STORMS COULD
APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH HAIL AROUND PENNY SIZE. IN GENERAL...
SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL POSSIBLE WITHIN ANY OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO THE
SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 TO 30 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ASSOCIATED WITH THE PASSAGE OF AN UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE.

THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 2:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
213 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1235 PM     HAIL             FORT EDWARD             43.27N 73.58W
06/24/2008  E0.75 INCH       WASHINGTON         NY   PUBLIC

0207 PM     HAIL             BUSKIRK                 42.95N 73.43W
06/24/2008  E0.88 INCH       RENSSELAER         NY   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&
Local storm report, Jun 24, 2:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
229 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0120 PM     HAIL             SCHUYLERVILLE           43.10N 73.58W
06/24/2008  M0.75 INCH       SARATOGA           NY   PARK/FOREST SRVC

0155 PM     HAIL             NORTH EASTON            43.01N 73.55W
06/24/2008  E1.00 INCH       WASHINGTON         NY   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 3:05 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:07 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 9:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess43 min
Jun 24, 12:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia60 min
Jun 24, 12:26 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYColumbia2 hr
Jun 24, 12:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYColumbia2 hr
Jun 24, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga, Washington54 min
Jun 24, 1:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer, Saratoga, Washington63 min
Jun 24, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYRensselaer60 min
Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYRensselaer, Washington3 hr
Jun 24, 1:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.