1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 25, 12:35 PM EST, 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 135 PM EDT FRI JUL 25 2003 .DISC...ISOLD SHRA (57 DBZ) E OF KGFL IN SLIGHTLY ENHANCED CU. WILL UPDATE IF ATCVTY PERSISTS FOR SLIGHT CHC IN NE PTN OF CWA. STRENGTHENING INVERSION SHOULD LIMIT DEVELOPMENT. 850 AM AFD... WILL UPDATE TO REMOVE EARLY MORNING WORDING. RAOB/MODEL SOUNDINGS STILL SHOW SOME INSTABILITY TODAY. BUT DEVELOPING SUBSIDENCE INVERSION NR 700 MB SHOULD PREVENT ANY PRECIPITATION. A FAIR AMOUNT OF CUMULUS MAY FORM BEFORE ATMOSPHERE STABILIZES. HAVE ADDED MORE CLOUDS IN GRIDS WITH EMPHASIS OVER HIGHER TERRAIN. MID AFD. A QUIET WEATHER DAY IS UNDER WAY...AND THE MODELS AGREE IT WILL BE THE FIRST OF AT LEAST TWO. QUESTION OF THE MORNING IS TMING OF THE PRECIPITAION ARRIVAL LATE IN THE WEEKEND. MODELS RANGE FROM SATURDAY NIGHT TO MID DAY SUNDAY FOR PRECIPITAION ONSET IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. PER THE HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION CENTER DISCUSSION...WE WILL DISCOUNT THE EARLIEST SOLUTION OF THE ETA...LEAVING US WITH A CHOICE OF SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH MID DAY SUNDAY. NEXT FOCUS WAS ON PRECIPITATION ENDING TIMES. MOVED THEM EARLIER ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE LINED US UP BETTER WITH OUR SURROUNDING OFFICES. .HYDROLOGIC STATUS... SPOTTY HEAVY RAINS HAVE SET US UP FOR PROBLEMS IF WE GET HEAVY RAINS IN THE SAME SPOTS. NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION IS FORECAST THROUGH SATURDAY THOUGH...SO FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED. .ALY...NONE. RJW
CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013-014-250815- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 420 AM EDT FRI JUL 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY .DAYS TWO THOUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION AND MORE DETAIL...VISIT US ON THE WEB AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV. FROM THERE YOU CAN CLICK ON THE AREA YOU ARE INTERESTED IN...AND VISIT THE LOCAL FORECAST OFFICE IN THAT AREA.
The Albany radar (KENX), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:25 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Isolated thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of July 25 across eastern New York. One of the storms became briefly severe in Washington County, as it spawned dime-sized hail in the town of Hartford.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, July 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5375528.