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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 2019Fulton County, Montgomery County, Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2019, 4:52 AM EDT for Fulton County, Montgomery County, Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 38 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 3, 2019, 4:52 AM EDT (08:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2019, 5:30 AM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Schenectady County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 343 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: 1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 3, 4:20 AM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 4:20 AM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 12:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:26 AM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:14 AM EDT, 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 3:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	49 min
Aug 3, 4:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Herkimer	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery	46 min
Aug 3, 11:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	45 min
Aug 3, 12:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	38 min
Aug 3, 12:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
Aug 3, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer	58 min
Aug 3, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	57 min
Aug 3, 12:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	67 min
Aug 3, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	29 min
Aug 3, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	27 min
Aug 3, 12:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
Aug 3, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	37 min
Aug 3, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	63 min
Aug 3, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	40 min
Aug 3, 1:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	34 min
Aug 3, 1:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
Aug 3, 1:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	3 hr
Aug 3, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	42 min
Aug 3, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	24 min
Aug 3, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	37 min
Aug 3, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	58 min
Aug 3, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	41 min
Aug 3, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	39 min
Aug 3, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	23 min
Aug 3, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	65 min
Aug 3, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	38 min
Aug 3, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	65 min
Aug 3, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene	27 min
Aug 3, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	52 min
Aug 3, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene, Schoharie	58 min
Aug 3, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	44 min
Aug 3, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	28 min
Aug 3, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene	58 min
Aug 3, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene, Ulster	56 min
Aug 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	49 min
Aug 3, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	54 min
Aug 3, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	32 min
Aug 3, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	26 min
Aug 3, 6:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
Aug 3, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	35 min
Aug 3, 1:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	41 min
Aug 3, 3:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr

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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.