Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2008, 3:37 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 53 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 24, 2008, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 24, 3:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 3:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 3:23 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 323 PM EDT THU JUL 24 2008 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-251930- 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- 323 PM EDT THU JUL 24 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED UNTIL SUNSET...SOME MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THE PROBABILITY FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON SATURDAY THOUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SNYDER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:09 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 309 PM EDT THU JUL 24 2008 NYZ032-242000- NORTHERN HERKIMER NY- 309 PM EDT THU JUL 24 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY... AT 306 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 NEAR MCKEEVER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLD FORGE... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MCKEEVER BY 315 PM EDT NICKS LAKE CAMPGROUND BY 330 PM EDT OLD FORGE BY 340 PM EDT ALGER ISLAND PUBLIC CAMPGROUND BY 350 PM EDT BIG MOOSE BY 400 PM EDT RAINFALL RATES MAY APPROACH A HALF AN INCH IN AN HOUR. WASULA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Albany, Schoharie | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 8:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Columbia, Greene | 6 hr |
| Jul 23, 8:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Schenectady | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 6 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Herkimer | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 9:48 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Greene, Ulster | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 10:14 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 11:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Schenectady | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 8:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Bennington | 6 hr |
| Jul 23, 10:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Windham | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:36 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ALY | Bennington | 18 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:36 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | ALY | Bennington | 12 hr |
| Jul 24, 2:40 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 8 hr |
| Jul 23, 8:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 6 hr |
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.