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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Albany, NY

July 25, 2023Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2023, 2:43 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 47 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 25, 2023, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2023, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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 25, 12:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 231 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 24, 6:58 PM EDT, 19 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 6:58 PM EDT, 19 hours 45 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 24, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Schenectady	44 min
Jul 24, 8:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	43 min
Jul 25, 12:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Ulster	4 hr
Jul 25, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	43 min
Jul 25, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	43 min
Jul 25, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	52 min
Jul 25, 1:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Greene	75 min
Jul 25, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene	49 min
Jul 25, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	39 min
Jul 25, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Ulster	54 min
Jul 25, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	36 min
Jul 25, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	46 min
Jul 25, 2:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Ulster	3 hr
Jul 25, 2:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
Jul 25, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	39 min
Jul 25, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	36 min
Jul 25, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	43 min
Jul 25, 3:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Ulster	2 hr
Jul 25, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	32 min
Jul 25, 4:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Warren	104 min
Jul 25, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	28 min
Jul 25, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	37 min
Jul 25, 1:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Windham	73 min
Jul 25, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		25 min
Jul 25, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		25 min
Jul 25, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		35 min
Jul 25, 4:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	111 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.