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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Albany, NY

September 2, 2014Warren County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2014, 7:47 PM EDT for Warren County, New York. It was in force for 43 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
Sep 2, 2014, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 2014, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Warren County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 299 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 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
299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 2:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYRensselaer24 min
Sep 2, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYRensselaer29 min
Sep 2, 7:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYWarren33 min
Sep 2, 7:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYHamilton25 min
Sep 2, 7:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYOtsego35 min
Sep 2, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYBerkshire42 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.