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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2020, 7:59 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 61 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
- May 15, 2020, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2020, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 15, 7:53 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 7:53 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Albany NY 702 PM EDT Fri May 15 2020 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ043-051>054-058>061-063>066-084-VTZ013>015- 161200- Northern Litchfield-Southern Litchfield-Northern Berkshire- Southern Berkshire-Northern Washington-Western Albany-Eastern Albany- Western Rensselaer-Eastern Rensselaer-Western Greene-Eastern Greene- Western Columbia-Eastern Columbia-Western Ulster-Eastern Ulster- Western Dutchess-Eastern Dutchess-Southern Washington-Bennington- Western Windham-Eastern Windham- 702 PM EDT Fri May 15 2020 ...TORNADO WATCH 187 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwestern Connecticut, western Massachusetts, the Capital Region, the mid-Hudson Valley, the eastern Catskills and the central and southern Taconics in eastern New York. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures while following all local, state and CDC guidelines. NYZ032-033-038>042-047>050-082-083-161200- Northern Herkimer-Hamilton-Southern Herkimer-Southern Fulton- Montgomery-Northern Saratoga-Northern Warren-Schoharie- Western Schenectady-Eastern Schenectady-Southern Saratoga- Northern Fulton-Southeast Warren- 702 PM EDT Fri May 15 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central New York and eastern New York. .DAY ONE...Tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Lewis | 27 min |
| May 15, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Herkimer | 39 min |
| May 15, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer | 64 min |
| May 15, 4:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 23 min |
| May 15, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer | 21 min |
| May 15, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga | 51 min |
| May 15, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren and 1 more | 48 min |
| May 15, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie | 42 min |
| May 15, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 36 min |
| May 15, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Washington | 29 min |
| May 15, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Greene, Schoharie, Ulster | 25 min |
| May 15, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady | 38 min |
| May 15, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 49 min |
| May 15, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 33 min |
| May 15, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Rensselaer | 31 min |
| May 15, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 41 min |
| May 15, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 51 min |
| May 15, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 47 min |
| May 15, 7:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Ulster | 24 min |
| May 15, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Windham | 16 min |
| May 15, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Windham | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2020Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 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.