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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Albany, NY

August 5, 2024Fulton County, Herkimer County, Montgomery County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2024, 3:49 PM EDT for Fulton County, Herkimer County, Montgomery County, New York. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 5, 2024, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2024, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fulton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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
Aug 5, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Aug 5, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 3:45 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 1:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
135 PM EDT Mon Aug 5 2024

VTZ014-015-051800-
Eastern Windham VT-Western Windham VT-
135 PM EDT Mon Aug 5 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN WINDHAM COUNTY
THROUGH 200 PM EDT...

At 135 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Westminster, or near Townshend, moving east at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Bellows Falls, Putney, Saxtons River, Westminster, Brookline, Athens,
North Westminster, East Putney, Westminster West, East Putney
Station, Hadley Field, Putney Station, and Westminster Station.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 4311 7244 4308 7244 4305 7247 4302 7246
      4300 7244 4300 7246 4298 7246 4297 7247
      4295 7259 4313 7265 4317 7245 4315 7246
      4314 7244 4311 7243
TIME...MOT...LOC 1735Z 251DEG 29KT 4306 7255

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

TAW

Local storm report, Aug 5, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 2:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:39 PM EDT, 10 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
Aug 5, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	36 min
Aug 5, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga	57 min
Aug 5, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	44 min
Aug 5, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	34 min
Aug 5, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	59 min
Aug 5, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, Washington	48 min
Aug 5, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	65 min
Aug 5, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	25 min
Aug 5, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Windham	28 min
Aug 5, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	33 min
Aug 5, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Bennington, Windham	62 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.