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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Albany, NY

November 17, 2010Columbia County, Dutchess County, Greene County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 17, 2010, 4:42 AM EST for Columbia County, Dutchess County, Greene County, New York. It was in force for 52 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: Nov 17, 2010, 4:42 AM EST (09:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 17, 2010, 5:34 AM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 367 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 Nov 16, 6:43 PM EST, 9 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 6:43 PM EST, 9 hours 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 16, 4:44 PM EST, 11 hours 58 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 17, 3:44 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie and 1 more	61 min
Nov 17, 3:45 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more	21 hr
Nov 17, 4:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	44 min
Nov 17, 4:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Rensselaer, Warren, Washington	92 min
Nov 17, 5:21 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY		54 min

Nearby

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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.