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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Albany, NY

July 21, 2022Saratoga County, Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2022, 12:32 PM EDT for Saratoga County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 43 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: Jul 21, 2022, 12:32 PM EDT (16:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2022, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Saratoga County, NY, Washington County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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
Jul 21, 11:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jul 21, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 4:22 AM EDT, 8 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 11:42 AM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 12:07 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 12:18 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 12:28 PM EDT, 4 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
Jul 21, 11:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	33 min
Jul 21, 12:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	23 min
Jul 21, 12:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery	48 min
Jul 21, 12:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	27 min
Jul 21, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	32 min
Jul 21, 12:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	63 min
Jul 21, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	37 min
Jul 21, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	48 min
Jul 21, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Lewis	30 min
Jul 21, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	26 min
Jul 21, 1:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	34 min
Jul 21, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	37 min
Jul 21, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	28 min
Jul 21, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	30 min
Jul 21, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	54 min
Jul 21, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	33 min
Jul 21, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	43 min
Jul 21, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	34 min
Jul 21, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	35 min
Jul 21, 4:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Rensselaer	3 hr
Jul 21, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	34 min
Jul 21, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	31 min
Jul 21, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	34 min
Jul 21, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	34 min
Jul 21, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	31 min
Jul 21, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	33 min
Jul 21, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	32 min
Jul 21, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	34 min
Jul 21, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	34 min
Jul 21, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	26 min

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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.