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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albany, NY

June 9, 2011Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2011, 3:49 PM EDT for Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 56 min. 19 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2011, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2011, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Dutchess County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 4:07 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	East Fishkill, NY
Jun 9, 4:15 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Beacon, NY
Jun 9, 4:17 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Hopewell Junction, NY
Jun 9, 4:20 PM EDT	HAIL 1.25	Hopewell Junction, NY
Jun 9, 4:20 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	1 S Castle Point, NY
Jun 9, 4:24 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Hopewell Junction, NY
Jun 9, 4:26 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Wappingers Falls, NY
Jun 9, 4:28 PM EDT	HAIL 1.5	Beacon, NY
Jun 9, 4:32 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Wingdale, NY	TREES AND WIRES DOWN
Jun 9, 4:39 PM EDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	1 E Newburgh, NY	TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS SEEN TO THE EAST
Jun 9, 4:40 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Wappingers Falls, NY
Jun 9, 4:41 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Hopewell Junction, NY
Jun 9, 4:42 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Beekman, NY
Jun 9, 4:43 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Wappingers Falls, NY
Jun 9, 4:49 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Dover Plains, NY
Jun 9, 4:53 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Dover Plains, NY	TREES AND LIMBS DOWN
Jun 9, 4:53 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Lagrangeville, NY	NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS DOWN
Jun 9, 4:53 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Lagrangeville, NY
Jun 9, 4:55 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Wappingers Falls, NY	TREES DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 1610 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1424 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

741 
WUUS51 KALY 091949
SVRALY
NYC027-111-092045-
/O.NEW.KALY.SV.W.0113.110609T1949Z-110609T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
349 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ULSTER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  SOUTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 345 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF WALLKILL...OR NEAR WALDEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   WALLKILL BY 355 PM EDT...
   PLATTEKILL BY 400 PM EDT...
   BEACON AND MARLBORO BY 410 PM EDT...
   FISHKILL AND WAPPINGERS FALLS BY 415 PM EDT...
   MYERS CORNER AND RED OAKS MILL BY 420 PM EDT...
   HOPEWELL JUNCTION BY 425 PM EDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

PLEASE REPORT HAIL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS AND REPORTS OF TREES DOWN TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY EMAIL AT ALB.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
AND EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.

&&

LAT...LON 4145 7400 4152 7401 4158 7396 4158 7405
      4160 7407 4161 7412 4159 7412 4158 7413
      4160 7424 4179 7353 4152 7354 4149 7392
      4144 7399
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 263DEG 30KT 4151 7421

$$

GJM/WASULA

1 follow-up statement

343 
WWUS51 KALY 092015
SVSALY

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
415 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

NYC027-111-092045-
/O.CON.KALY.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-110609T2045Z/
ULSTER NY-DUTCHESS NY-
415 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHERN DUTCHESS AND SOUTHEASTERN ULSTER COUNTIES...

AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR CASTLE POINT...OR NEAR BEACON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FISHKILL PLAINS...MYERS CORNER...DIDDELL AND SWARTOUTVILLE BY 420
  PM EDT...
  ARTHURSBURG...HILLSIDE LAKE...HOPEWELL JUNCTION AND NOXON BY 425 PM
  EDT...
  LAGRANGEVILLE AND SYLVAN LAKE BY 430 PM EDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING 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.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS AND REPORTS OF TREES DOWN TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY EMAIL AT ALB.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
AND EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.

&&

LAT...LON 4145 7400 4152 7401 4158 7396 4158 7405
      4160 7407 4161 7412 4159 7412 4158 7413
      4160 7424 4179 7353 4152 7354 4149 7392
      4144 7399
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 241DEG 37KT 4157 7392

$$

GJM/WASULA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	45 min
Jun 8, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	43 min
Jun 8, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	62 min
Jun 8, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	53 min
Jun 8, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	49 min
Jun 8, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Warren	69 min
Jun 8, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	30 min
Jun 8, 11:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene, Schoharie	60 min
Jun 8, 11:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Ulster	61 min
Jun 9, 12:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	42 min
Jun 9, 12:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	23 min
Jun 9, 12:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	62 min
Jun 9, 8:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	26 min
Jun 9, 9:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	41 min
Jun 9, 9:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	62 min
Jun 9, 11:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer, Warren	61 min
Jun 9, 12:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie	63 min
Jun 9, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren	57 min
Jun 9, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington	75 min
Jun 9, 1:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	64 min
Jun 9, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	57 min
Jun 9, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	67 min
Jun 9, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington	73 min
Jun 9, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene, Schoharie	53 min
Jun 9, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	65 min
Jun 9, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	50 min
Jun 9, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	62 min
Jun 9, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	64 min
Jun 9, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	63 min
Jun 9, 4:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess	2 hr
Jun 9, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	38 min
Jun 9, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	28 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.