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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY

June 21, 2016Columbia County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2016, 3:24 AM EDT for Columbia County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 21, 2016, 3:24 AM EDT (07:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2016, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 2305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

656 
WUUS51 KALY 210724
SVRALY
CTC005-MAC003-NYC021-210830-
/O.NEW.KALY.SV.W.0013.160621T0724Z-160621T0830Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
324 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
  SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
  SOUTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 430 AM EDT

* AT 324 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  SHEFFIELD...OR NEAR GREAT BARRINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TORRINGTON...GREAT BARRINGTON...CANTON...NEW HARTFORD...COPAKE...
  SHEFFIELD...NORFOLK...OTIS...CANAAN...SANDISFIELD...TOLLAND...
  NEW HARTFORD CENTER...WINSTED...ASHLEY FALLS...FALLS VILLAGE...
  HOUSATONIC...BARKHAMSTED...SALISBURY...
  HILLSDALE AND NEW MARLBOROUGH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

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/NWSALBANY OR TWITTER @NWSALBANY

&&

LAT...LON 4190 7291 4189 7294 4185 7295 4191 7333
      4199 7349 4205 7349 4205 7352 4201 7353
      4203 7357 4226 7355 4223 7301 4215 7303
      4215 7307 4212 7306 4209 7307 4204 7306
      4204 7301 4197 7303 4197 7289
TIME...MOT...LOC 0724Z 272DEG 32KT 4214 7342 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

JPV/OKEEFE

1 follow-up statement

199 
WWUS51 KALY 210800
SVSALY

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
400 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

CTC005-MAC003-NYC021-210810-
/O.CAN.KALY.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160621T0830Z/
LITCHFIELD CT-BERKSHIRE MA-COLUMBIA NY-
400 AM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN LITCHFIELD...SOUTHERN
BERKSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
    
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4190 7291 4189 7294 4185 7295 4191 7333
      4199 7349 4205 7349 4205 7352 4201 7353
      4203 7357 4226 7355 4223 7301 4215 7303
      4215 7307 4212 7306 4209 7307 4204 7306
      4204 7301 4197 7303 4197 7289
TIME...MOT...LOC 0758Z 272DEG 32KT 4213 7299 

$$

JPV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 10:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	55 min
Jun 20, 11:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	45 min
Jun 20, 11:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	24 min
Jun 20, 11:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	43 min
Jun 21, 12:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	53 min
Jun 21, 12:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Oneida	30 min
Jun 21, 12:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	33 min
Jun 21, 12:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Saratoga	49 min
Jun 21, 1:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	35 min
Jun 21, 2:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	30 min
Jun 21, 2:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	26 min
Jun 21, 2:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene, Schoharie	38 min
Jun 21, 2:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	33 min
Jun 21, 2:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	62 min
Jun 21, 3:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2016 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2016 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.