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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2008, 4:51 PM EDT for Saratoga County, New York. It was in force for 39 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 20, 2008, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2008, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Saratoga County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 20, 1:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 1:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 220 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-038>041-043-047>054-058>061-063>066-082- 084-VTZ013>015-211100- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-SOUTHERN HERKIMER- SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA-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-SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM- EASTERN WINDHAM- 220 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 709 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT...THE BERKSHIRES...LITCHFIELD HILLS AND EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK EXPECT WARREN AND HAMILTON COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...ALBANY...HERKIMER...SARATOGA...FULTON...MONTGOMERY... SCHENECTADY...WASHINGTON...RENSSELAER...SCHOHARIE...GREENE... COLUMBIA...ULSTER...DUTCHESS...BERKSHIRE... LITCHFIELD...BENNINGTON AND WINDHAM. NYZ033-042-083-211100- HAMILTON-NORTHERN WARREN-SOUTHEAST WARREN- 220 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR HAMILTON AND WARREN COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:55 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 4:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more | 20 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 9:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 54 min |
| Jul 20, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer, Montgomery | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Greene, Schoharie | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Windham | 31 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.