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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2017, 8:43 AM EDT for Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 32 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, 2017, 8:43 AM EDT (12:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2017, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:44 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Aug 22, 7:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 7:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Herkimer | 22 min |
| Aug 22, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 56 min |
| Aug 22, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton | 19 min |
| Aug 22, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Warren | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Warren, Washington | 55 min |
| Aug 22, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren | 66 min |
| Aug 22, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer | 40 min |
| Aug 22, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Saratoga | 57 min |
| Aug 22, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Washington | 41 min |
| Aug 22, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 56 min |
| Aug 22, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie | 55 min |
| Aug 22, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Ulster | 51 min |
| Aug 22, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Washington | 58 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.