Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2008, 5:25 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 65 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 22, 2008, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2008, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Berkshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 22, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 206 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 NYZ038-221900- SOUTHERN HERKIMER NY- 206 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN HERKIMER COUNTY... AT 206 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...AROUND HALF INCH HAIL...WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CEDARVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ILION...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ILION...FRANKFORT AND JORDANVILLE BY 240 PM EDT MOHAWK BY 245 PM EDT HERKIMER BY 255 PM EDT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITTLE FALLS AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF MIDDLEVILLE BY 300 PM EDT RAINFALL RATES MAY APPROACH AN INCH IN AN HOUR. WASULA
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 259 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 NYZ038>040-221945- SOUTHERN HERKIMER NY-MONTGOMERY NY-SOUTHERN FULTON NY- 259 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY MOVING INTO WESTERN FULTON AND WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES... AT 256 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...AROUND HALF INCH HAIL...WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF JORDANVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF LITTLE FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FORT PLAIN AND ST. JOHNSVILLE BY 345 PM EDT RAINFALL RATES WILL APPROACH AN INCH IN AN HOUR. WASULA
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 3:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 66 min |
| Jul 22, 4:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady | 81 min |
| Jul 22, 5:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 3 hr |
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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.