Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2008, 5:48 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 42 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2008, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2008, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Dutchess County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:50 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Hyde Park, NY | ALSO TREES DOWN. |
| Jun 16, 5:55 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Hyde Park, NY | |
| Jun 16, 6:07 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Salt Point, NY | |
| Jun 16, 6:12 PM EDT | HAIL 1.5 | Millbrook, NY | |
| Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Dover Plains, NY |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KALY 162148
TORALY
NYC027-162230-
/O.NEW.KALY.TO.W.0001.080616T2148Z-080616T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
548 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 546 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PLEASANT
VALLEY...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF POUGHKEEPSIE...MOVING EAST AT 22
MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MILLBROOK AND STANFORDVILLE BY 610 PM EDT...
DOVER PLAINS BY 625 PM EDT...
AMENIA AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF MILLERTON BY 630 PM EDT...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
PLEASE REPORT HAIL SIZE... DAMAGING WINDS AND REPORTS OF TREES DOWN
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY EMAIL AT ALB.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND
EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.
LAT...LON 4188 7394 4196 7350 4189 7350 4188 7350
4173 7351 4170 7393
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 262DEG 19KT 4180 7384
$$
GJM/VTKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schoharie | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady | 70 min |
| Jun 16, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 3:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Rensselaer | 95 min |
| Jun 16, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Washington | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 4:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Ulster | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 6:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.