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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2008, 5:41 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 10, 2008, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2008, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 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 21:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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
- 271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 10, 4:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 4:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1056 AM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-111100- 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- 1056 AM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 817 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY 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 THE CHANCE FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH MOST OF THE UPCOMING WEEK AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES TRACKS ACROSS THE REGION. RAINFALL COULD BE LOCALLY HEAVY ON MONDAY ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF THE SKYWARN NETWORK IS REQUESTED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. LITCHFIELD...BERKSHIRE...ALBANY...COLUMBIA...DUTCHESS...FULTON... GREENE...HAMILTON...HERKIMER...MONTGOMERY...RENSSELAER... SARATOGA...SCHENECTADY...SCHOHARIE...ULSTER...WARREN... WASHINGTON...BENNINGTON...WINDHAM. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 10, 3:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Schoharie | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 11:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 12:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Hamilton | 102 min |
| Aug 10, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 59 min |
| Aug 10, 1:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Warren | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Rensselaer | 40 min |
| Aug 10, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 4:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Bennington | 107 min |
| Aug 10, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 2:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Bennington | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 35 min |
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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.