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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2010, 3:21 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 16, 2010, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2010, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 16, 1:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 1:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 114 PM EDT MON AUG 16 2010 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ039>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-082>084- VTZ013>015-171715- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-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- 114 PM EDT MON AUG 16 2010 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 619 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...MOST OF EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...EXCEPT HERKIMER AND HAMILTON COUNTIES...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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ACTIVATED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN CONNECTICUT... LITCHFIELD. IN MASSACHUSETTS... BERKSHIRE. IN NEW YORK... FULTON...MONTGOMERY...SARATOGA...WARREN...WASHINGTON... SCHOHARIE...SCHENECTADY...SCHENECTADY...ALBANY... RENSSELAER...GREENE...COLUMBIA...ULSTER...DUTCHESS. IN VERMONT... BENNINGTON...WINDHAM. NYZ038-171715- SOUTHERN HERKIMER- 114 PM EDT MON AUG 16 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PART OF HERKIMER COUNTY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. NYZ032-033-171715- NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON- 114 PM EDT MON AUG 16 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 5:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 6:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 6:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 7:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 7:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Fulton | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 8:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 8:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Fulton | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 8:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 8:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 8:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 9:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Washington | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 10:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Otsego | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 12:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Schoharie | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 12:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Greene, Schoharie | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Putnam | 16 min |
| Aug 16, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Orange | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Orange | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 10:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Windham | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 12:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Bennington | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Windham | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2010Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 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.