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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Albany, NY

July 17, 2009Columbia County, Dutchess County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2009, 4:15 PM EDT for Columbia County, Dutchess County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 60 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 17, 2009, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2009, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 95 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 17, 3:57 PM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:57 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 4:15 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
415 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2009

MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-082>084-VTZ013>015-
181100-
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-NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN-
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM-
415 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST
CENTRAL NEW YORK EXCLUDING ULSTER AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES...AND SOUTHERN
VERMONT.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
EVENING AHEAD OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND ITS ASSOCIATED WARM
FRONT. SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE...BUT FLOODING IS
NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

CTZ001-013-NYZ063>066-181100-
NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-WESTERN ULSTER-
EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS-
415 PM EDT FRI JUL 17 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT AND
DUTCHESS AND ULSTER COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS EVENING AHEAD OF A WARM FRONT
MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND HAIL UP TO QUARTER
SIZE...AS WELL AS FREQUENT LIGHTING...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME
PONDING OF WATER...AND URBAN OR SMALL STREAM FLOODING MAY BE
POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/ALBANY

TAW

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 3:44 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 4:49 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryALYAlbany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 4 more3 hr
Jul 17, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYDutchess58 min
Jul 17, 5:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYWindham3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2009Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.