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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2024, 1:11 PM EDT for Albany County, Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 34 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 19, 2024, 1:11 PM EDT (17:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2024, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 8 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 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 Aug 19, 1:01 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:01 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 4:09 AM EDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Albany NY 409 AM EDT Mon Aug 19 2024 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-192100- Northern Litchfield-Southern Litchfield-Northern Berkshire- Southern Berkshire-Northern Herkimer-Hamilton-Southern Herkimer- Southern Fulton-Montgomery-Northern Saratoga-Northern Warren- Northern Washington-Schoharie-Western Schenectady- Eastern Schenectady-Southern Saratoga-Western Albany-Eastern Albany- Western Rensselaer-Eastern Rensselaer-Western Greene-Eastern Greene- Western Columbia-Eastern Columbia-Western Ulster-Eastern Ulster- Western Dutchess-Eastern Dutchess-Northern Fulton-Southeast Warren- Southern Washington-Bennington-Western Windham-Eastern Windham- 409 AM EDT Mon Aug 19 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwestern Connecticut, western Massachusetts, east central New York, eastern New York and southern Vermont. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop late this morning into this afternoon. Locally heavy rainfall will be possible as repeated heavy downpours may be lead to flooding of urban, low lying, and poor drainage areas, especially in southern Vermont and southern Litchfield County which was hard hit with heavy rain yesterday. Some localized flash flooding and, in southern Litchfield County, renewed flooding along small streams and creeks is possible. The Weather Prediction Center has expanded its slight risk into parts of southern Vermont into parts of Litchfield County with a marginal risk across the rest of the region. In addition, a few storms may severe and the Storm Prediction Center has expanded its marginal risk for severe thunderstorms to cover most of eastern New York into western New England. Damaging winds gusts will be the main threat with any storms. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to relay severe weather and flooding reports to the National Weather Service in Albany New York.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Herkimer | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 9:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Herkimer | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 12:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady | 119 min |
| Aug 19, 1:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Saratoga | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 2:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Albany, Schenectady | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Albany | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 4:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer | 87 min |
| Aug 19, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Columbia | 28 min |
| Aug 19, 4:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 79 min |
| Aug 19, 7:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Saratoga | 119 min |
| Aug 19, 1:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 7 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | 23 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.