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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Albany, NY

May 17, 2025Washington County, New York; Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2025, 5:26 PM EDT for Washington County, New York; Bennington County, Vermont. 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: May 17, 2025, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2025, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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
May 17, 12:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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 May 17, 3:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 4:35 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 4:42 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 5:06 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 5:11 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 5:18 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 5:24 PM EDT, 2 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
May 16, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	45 min
May 17, 8:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	28 min
May 17, 8:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	46 min
May 17, 8:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	43 min
May 17, 8:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	35 min
May 17, 9:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	32 min
May 17, 9:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	36 min
May 17, 11:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	28 min
May 17, 11:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	48 min
May 17, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	45 min
May 17, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	52 min
May 17, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	63 min
May 17, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	48 min
May 17, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	46 min
May 17, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	25 min
May 17, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	32 min
May 17, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Warren	56 min
May 17, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	33 min
May 17, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	31 min
May 17, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	27 min
May 17, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	42 min
May 17, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	35 min
May 17, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	37 min
May 17, 3:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Warren	3 hr
May 17, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	34 min
May 17, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	58 min
May 17, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	41 min
May 17, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington	51 min
May 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	50 min
May 17, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	30 min
May 17, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	63 min
May 17, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	52 min
May 17, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	48 min
May 17, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady, Schoharie	39 min
May 17, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	36 min
May 17, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	48 min
May 17, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	43 min
May 17, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	39 min
May 17, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington	68 min
May 17, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	44 min
May 17, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	46 min
May 17, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Bennington, Windham	48 min
May 17, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	39 min
May 17, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	44 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.