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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2026, 3:31 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 59 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 8, 2026, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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 8, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Greene | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Ulster | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Rensselaer | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Albany | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Dutchess | 31 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.