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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Albany, NY

August 22, 2013Rensselaer County, Washington County, New York; Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2013, 8:31 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, Washington County, New York; Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 59 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 22, 2013, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2013, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Rensselaer County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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 nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2013-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 318 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2013-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 8:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYWashington44 min
Aug 22, 8:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYRensselaer24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.