Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2020

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Albany, NY

October 10, 2020Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2020, 6:08 PM EDT for Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 25 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
Oct 10, 2020, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
Oct 10, 2020, 6:33 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 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 22:13 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 10, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2020-10-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2020-10-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 282 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 10, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYHamilton25 min
Oct 10, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYHerkimer48 min
Oct 10, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYHerkimer48 min
Oct 10, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYHamilton, Warren26 min
Oct 10, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYFulton, Hamilton, Herkimer38 min
Oct 10, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYWarren31 min
Oct 10, 6:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYFulton30 min
Oct 10, 6:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYWarren46 min
Oct 10, 7:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYFulton31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.