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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2024, 3:11 PM EDT for Columbia County, Greene County, New York. It was in force for 64 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 17, 2024, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2024, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Columbia County, NY, Greene County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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 17, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 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 Jul 16, 7:45 PM EDT, 19 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 7:45 PM EDT, 19 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 17, 3:17 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 2 more | 15 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Schoharie | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 12:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Schenectady | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Albany | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 12:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Saratoga | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 12:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Saratoga, Schenectady | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 1:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Albany | 27 min |
| Jul 17, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer | 31 min |
| Jul 17, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 51 min |
| Jul 17, 1:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Schoharie | 25 min |
| Jul 17, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Albany | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Ulster | 63 min |
| Jul 17, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Greene | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Columbia | 42 min |
| Jul 17, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Greene | 43 min |
| Jul 17, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 58 min |
| Jul 17, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Columbia | 49 min |
| Jul 17, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Albany | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 39 min |
| Jul 17, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Ulster | 40 min |
| Jul 17, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Windham | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Windham | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | 57 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.