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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Albany, NY

May 29, 2012Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2012, 5:17 PM EDT for Washington County, New York. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2012, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Washington County, NY

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 29, 12:26 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

551 
WUUS51 KALY 292117
SVRALY
NYC115-292145-
/O.NEW.KALY.SV.W.0033.120529T2117Z-120529T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
517 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  GRANVILLE...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF WHITEHALL...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   RACEVILLE AND EAST WHITEHALL BY 525 PM EDT...
   HAMPTON...HAMPTON FLATS AND LOW HAMPTON BY 530 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 OR
ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.ALBANY.GOV.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.

&&

LAT...LON 4353 7323 4332 7325 4331 7335 4351 7357
      4359 7342 4358 7340 4362 7338 4363 7335
      4363 7332
TIME...MOT...LOC 2117Z 236DEG 25KT 4344 7331

$$
SNYDER/KOLECI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	56 min
May 28, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer	47 min
May 28, 9:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	56 min
May 28, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	60 min
May 29, 3:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	46 min
May 29, 4:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	39 min
May 29, 4:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	46 min
May 29, 5:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton	26 min
May 29, 5:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	60 min
May 29, 6:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	38 min
May 29, 7:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	38 min
May 29, 7:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	52 min
May 29, 7:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	33 min
May 29, 8:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	28 min
May 29, 12:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	34 min
May 29, 12:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	54 min
May 29, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton	44 min
May 29, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren	59 min
May 29, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	57 min
May 29, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	37 min
May 29, 1:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	27 min
May 29, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	59 min
May 29, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	43 min
May 29, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	57 min
May 29, 2:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	29 min
May 29, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	42 min
May 29, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	42 min
May 29, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	23 min
May 29, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	50 min
May 29, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	61 min
May 29, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	55 min
May 29, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Warren	60 min
May 29, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	58 min
May 29, 3:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	35 min
May 29, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	63 min
May 29, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	32 min
May 29, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	61 min
May 29, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren	57 min
May 29, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga	55 min
May 29, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	66 min
May 29, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	62 min
May 29, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie	42 min
May 29, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	43 min
May 29, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	55 min
May 29, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady and 2 more	2 hr
May 29, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	51 min
May 29, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	30 min
May 29, 5:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Saratoga	119 min
May 29, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	41 min
May 29, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene, Ulster	24 min
May 29, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	61 min
May 29, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	60 min
May 29, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	37 min
May 29, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene, Ulster	23 min
May 29, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	44 min
May 29, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	61 min
May 29, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	36 min
May 29, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.