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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Albany, NY

September 13, 2022Columbia County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2022, 5:04 PM EDT for Columbia County, New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 56 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: Sep 13, 2022, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Sep 13, 2022, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Sep 13, 3:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 3:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 3:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 13, 4:30 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 13, 4:37 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 4:38 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 13, 4:39 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 4:53 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 4:58 PM EDT, 6 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
Sep 13, 3:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia	114 min
Sep 13, 6:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Greene, Ulster	65 min
Sep 13, 11:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	44 min
Sep 13, 12:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	39 min
Sep 13, 1:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	38 min
Sep 13, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	30 min
Sep 13, 1:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady	3 hr
Sep 13, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	51 min
Sep 13, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	48 min
Sep 13, 2:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Greene, Schoharie	3 hr
Sep 13, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	47 min
Sep 13, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	3 hr
Sep 13, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	40 min
Sep 13, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington	63 min
Sep 13, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	61 min
Sep 13, 2:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Washington	3 hr
Sep 13, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	49 min
Sep 13, 3:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	3 hr
Sep 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	52 min
Sep 13, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	37 min
Sep 13, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	52 min
Sep 13, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	3 hr
Sep 13, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Bennington	67 min
Sep 13, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	45 min
Sep 13, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	50 min
Sep 13, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	28 min
Sep 13, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	47 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.