Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2008, 12:16 PM EDT for Greene County, Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 29 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 27, 2008, 12:16 PM EDT (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2008, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, NY, Schoharie County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1001 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 27, 10:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 10:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 12:04 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1204 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-281615- 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- 1204 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 760 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. THERE IS ALSO CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 27, 10:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1049 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0120 AM HAIL TROY 42.73N 73.68W
07/27/2008 E1.00 INCH RENSSELAER NY PUBLIC
&&Special weather statement, Jul 27, 11:29 AM EDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1129 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 NYZ058-059-271600- EASTERN GREENE NY-WESTERN GREENE NY- 1129 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN GREENE COUNTY... AT 1128 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...AROUND HALF INCH HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HUNTER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 21 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MAPLECREST...EAST JEWETT...BROOKSBURG AND TANNERSVILLE BY 1135 AM EDT EAST WINDHAM BY 1140 AM EDT DURSO CORNER AND HERVEY STREET BY 1145 AM EDT SOUTH DURHAM BY 1150 AM EDT ACRA AND SUNSIDE BY 1155 AM EDT FRUGIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jul 26, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 10:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Warren, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Schenectady | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 1:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 3 more | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 3:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 40 min |
| Jul 27, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 12:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Ulster | 5 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Greene, Ulster | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 63 min |
| Jul 27, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 1:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Ulster | 6 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 63 min |
| Jul 26, 11:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 5 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 1:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Windham | 34 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.