Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2013, 1:55 PM EDT for Columbia County, Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 65 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
- Jul 20, 2013, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2013, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 20, 1:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 1:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 4:04 AM EDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 404 AM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-211100- 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- 404 AM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH WILL BE MOVING ACROSS OUR REGION. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE FROM WEST SOUTHWEST TO EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 45 MPH. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITHIN ANY THUNDERSTORM AS WELL AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY TRAIN ACROSS THE SAME AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY NEEDED LATER TODAY. IN THE MEANTIME SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO SEND ANY REPORTS OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL OR RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES OR MORE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VIA THE SEVERE WEATHER REPORT FORM ON THE INTERNET OR BY TELEPHONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 1:47 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 147 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 CTZ001-MAZ025-NYZ060-061-065-066-201815- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD CT-SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE MA-WESTERN DUTCHESS NY- EASTERN DUTCHESS NY-WESTERN COLUMBIA NY-EASTERN COLUMBIA NY- 147 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK... COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK... AT 144 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINE PLAINS...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF RHINEBECK...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTH OF COPAKE BY 155 PM EDT MILLERTON BY 200 PM EDT 9 MILES NORTH OF SHARON BY 205 PM EDT 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. LAT...LON 4213 7339 4188 7339 4188 7376 4208 7378 TIME...MOT...LOC 1746Z 268DEG 16KT 4200 7361 LFM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 8:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Hamilton | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer, Warren | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Fulton | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie | 67 min |
| Jul 19, 9:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Washington | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 10:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 7:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Greene, Schoharie | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 1:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Columbia | 28 min |
| Jul 19, 10:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 3 hr |
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.