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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Albany, NY

June 19, 2024Saratoga County, Washington County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2024, 2:23 PM EDT for Saratoga County, Washington County, New York. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 19, 2024, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2024, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 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 18:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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: 984 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 19, 1:55 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:55 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:52 AM EDT, 9 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:30 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:33 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:38 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:48 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:51 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:16 PM EDT, 7 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
Jun 19, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	38 min
Jun 19, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	47 min
Jun 19, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	27 min
Jun 19, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	30 min
Jun 19, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	27 min
Jun 19, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Oneida	37 min
Jun 19, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	27 min
Jun 19, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	24 min
Jun 19, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	29 min
Jun 19, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	35 min
Jun 19, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	24 min
Jun 19, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	35 min
Jun 19, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	37 min
Jun 19, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	27 min
Jun 19, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	24 min
Jun 19, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	36 min
Jun 19, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	36 min
Jun 19, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	34 min
Jun 19, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	27 min
Jun 19, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	25 min
Jun 19, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	29 min
Jun 19, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	37 min
Jun 19, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	25 min
Jun 19, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	33 min
Jun 19, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	28 min
Jun 19, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	29 min
Jun 19, 5:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Schoharie	2 hr
Jun 19, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	26 min
Jun 19, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	34 min
Jun 19, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	21 min
Jun 19, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	28 min
Jun 19, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	37 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.