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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Albany, NY

April 16, 2026Hamilton County, Warren County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2026, 7:52 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Warren County, New York. It was in force for 23 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: Apr 16, 2026, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2026, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Hamilton County, NY, Warren County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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 Apr 16, 7:45 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 7:45 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 7:45 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
Apr 15, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Putnam	36 min
Apr 15, 9:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	48 min
Apr 15, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	62 min
Apr 15, 10:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	43 min
Apr 15, 10:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	47 min
Apr 15, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	30 min
Apr 15, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	39 min
Apr 15, 11:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	31 min
Apr 16, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	63 min
Apr 16, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2026 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026

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.