Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2009, 2:02 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 9, 2009, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2009, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Herkimer County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jun 9, 1:55 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:55 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 1:47 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 147 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 NYZ033-058-063-101100- HAMILTON-WESTERN GREENE-WESTERN ULSTER- 147 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR HAMILTON...WESTERN GREENE AND WESTERN ULSTER COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...POTENTIALLY GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...AND ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE FROM WEST NORTHWEST...TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 35 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN NEW YORK... HAMILTON...GREENE...AND ULSTER. CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ041>043-048>054-059>061-064>066-083-084- VTZ013>015-101100- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN SARATOGA-NORTHERN WARREN- NORTHERN WASHINGTON-WESTERN SCHENECTADY-EASTERN SCHENECTADY- SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY-EASTERN ALBANY-WESTERN RENSSELAER- EASTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN GREENE-WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA- EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS-SOUTHEAST WARREN- SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM- 147 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK EXCLUDING THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS...WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY AND THE SCHOHARIE VALLEY AND SOUTHEAST CATSKILLS...AND FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND SHOULD MOVE FROM THE WEST NORTHWEST...TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 35 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ032-038>040-047-082-101100- NORTHERN HERKIMER-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY- SCHOHARIE-NORTHERN FULTON- 147 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 355 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR HERKIMER...FULTON...MONTGOMERY AND SCHOHARIE COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK. .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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN NEW YORK... HERKIMER...FULTON...MONTGOMERY...SCHOHARIE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 1:58 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 158 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 NYZ038-091845- SOUTHERN HERKIMER NY- 158 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN HERKIMER COUNTY... AT 156 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...AROUND HALF INCH HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CEDARVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF UTICA...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CEDARVILLE AND FRANKFORT BY 215 PM EDT ILION BY 220 PM EDT MOHAWK AND HERKIMER BY 225 PM EDT JORDANVILLE BY 235 PM EDT 7 MILES SOUTH OF LITTLE FALLS BY 245 PM EDT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 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.