Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2010, 1:25 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Saratoga County, Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 50 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 5, 2010, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2010, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Montgomery County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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 5, 11:25 AM EDT, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 11:25 AM EDT, 2 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 1:04 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 104 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-061100- 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- 104 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 ...TORNADO WATCH 262 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .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. TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE AREA COULD BRING TWO OR MORE INCHES OF A WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TO THE REGION FROM ALBANY SOUTHWARD ON SUNDAY. IN ADDITION...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...AGAIN MOSTLY FROM ALBANY SOUTHWARD. WHILE MOST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS LOOK TO BE NON SEVERE...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF THESE COULD BECOME LOCALLY STRONG TO SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED. 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:06 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:14 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 114 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 NYZ039-040-048>050-051745- WESTERN SCHENECTADY NY-EASTERN SCHENECTADY NY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA NY- MONTGOMERY NY-SOUTHERN FULTON NY- 114 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WEST CENTRAL SARATOGA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK... NORTHERN SCHENECTADY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SCOTIA... SOUTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JOHNSTOWN... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FONDA...CANAJOHARIE...AMSTERDAM... AT 112 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...AROUND HALF INCH HAIL...WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EPHRATAH...OR ABOUT OVER CANAJOHARIE...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FONDA AND JOHNSTOWN BY 120 PM EDT TRIBES HILL BY 125 PM EDT FORT JOHNSON BY 130 PM EDT AMSTERDAM AND HAGAMAN BY 135 PM EDT HAGAMAN BY 140 PM EDT GLENVILLE...ROTTERDAM JUNCTION AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTIA BY 145 PM EDT IN ADDITION TO HAIL AND STRONG WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.