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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY

May 30, 20146 counties in New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2014, 6:05 PM EDT for 6 counties in New York. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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: May 30, 2014, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2014, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 6:48 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Catskill, NY	TREE DOWN.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

132 
WUUS51 KALY 302205
SVRALY
NYC001-021-027-039-095-111-302300-
/O.NEW.KALY.SV.W.0013.140530T2205Z-140530T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
605 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN ALBANY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF RHINEBECK...
  GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HUNTER...CATSKILL...
  SOUTHERN SCHOHARIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  NORTHERN ULSTER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SAUGERTIES...KINGSTON...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LIVINGSTONVILLE TO GILBOA TO
  NORTH BLENHEIM TO JEFFERSON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF COBLESKILL TO 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROXBURY TO
  14 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROXBURY TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF COBLESKILL...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  GILBOA BY 615 PM EDT...
  WINDHAM AND PRATTSVILLE BY 620 PM EDT...
  NORTH-SOUTH LAKE CAMPGROUND BY 630 PM EDT...
  HIGH FALLS AND HUNTER BY 635 PM EDT...
  WOODLAND VALLEY CAMPGROUND...LANESVILLE...PHOENICIA AND CATSKILL BY
  640 PM EDT...

PLEASE REPORT HAIL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS AND REPORTS OF TREES DOWN TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY EMAIL AT ALB.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV...
ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.ALBANY.GOV
OR TWITTER @NWSALBANY.

LAT...LON 4257 7468 4256 7464 4250 7450 4247 7439
      4260 7417 4193 7352 4184 7421 4208 7464
      4212 7456 4215 7453 4215 7451 4217 7446
      4221 7454 4235 7444 4243 7464 4251 7471
TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 316DEG 40KT 4249 7420 4240 7430
          4243 7440 4249 7450

$$

1 follow-up statement

789 
WWUS51 KALY 302236
SVSALY

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
636 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014

NYC095-302246-
/O.CAN.KALY.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140530T2300Z/
SCHOHARIE NY-
636 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SCHOHARIE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

PLEASE REPORT HAIL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS AND REPORTS OF TREES DOWN TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY EMAIL AT ALB.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV...
ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.ALBANY.GOV
OR TWITTER @NWSALBANY.

LAT...LON 4184 7422 4208 7464 4215 7453 4217 7446
      4221 7454 4233 7442 4233 7440 4234 7430
      4243 7414 4248 7406 4193 7352
TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 316DEG 40KT 4228 7407 4219 7417
          4222 7427 4228 7437

$$

NYC001-021-027-039-111-302300-
/O.CON.KALY.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140530T2300Z/
ALBANY NY-GREENE NY-ULSTER NY-DUTCHESS NY-COLUMBIA NY-
636 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHERN COLUMBIA...NORTHERN DUTCHESS...NORTHERN ULSTER...GREENE
AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALBANY COUNTIES...

AT 632 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SOUTH DURHAM TO HUNTER TO
JEWETT CENTER TO RED FALLS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES
NORTHEAST OF HUNTER TO HUNTER TO 8 MILES EAST OF ROXBURY...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  PINE HILL BY 640 PM EDT...
  KISKATOM...LAWRENCEVILLE...JEFFERSON HEIGHTS AND LEEDS BY 645 PM
  EDT...
  CAUTERSKILL...BURDEN DOCK...OAK HILL LANDING AND CATSKILL BY 650 PM
  EDT...
  BINGHAM MILLS BY 655 PM EDT...

PLEASE REPORT HAIL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS AND REPORTS OF TREES DOWN TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY EMAIL AT ALB.STORMREPORT@NOAA.GOV...
ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.ALBANY.GOV
OR TWITTER @NWSALBANY.

LAT...LON 4184 7422 4208 7464 4215 7453 4217 7446
      4221 7454 4233 7442 4233 7440 4234 7430
      4243 7414 4248 7406 4193 7352
TIME...MOT...LOC 2236Z 316DEG 40KT 4228 7407 4219 7417
          4222 7427 4228 7437

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	23 min
May 30, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	32 min
May 30, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	35 min
May 30, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	31 min
May 30, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	27 min
May 30, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	25 min
May 30, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	43 min
May 30, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	42 min
May 30, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	24 min
May 30, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	53 min
May 30, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	39 min
May 30, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady	46 min
May 30, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Ulster	50 min
May 30, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	63 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.