ABUS34 KALB 220004
PNSALB

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
800 PM EDT MON SEP 21 1998

...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH SARATOGA COUNTY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MECHANICVILLE AREA FROM ABOUT 330 PM TO
430 PM CAUSED NUMEROUS DAMAGE IN THAT AREA.  SOME OF THE REPORTS ARE:
POWER WAS OUT FOR ABOUT EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE FROM I87 EXIT 9 THROUGH
HALFMOON.  ROUTE 146 TO PRUYN HILL ROAD HAD DOWNED POWER LINES. 
ROUTE 146 TO FARM-MARKET ROAD HAD MUCH LEAF STRIPPING...POWER LINES
DOWNED AND DAMAGE TO A ROADSIDE BILLBOARD.  ROUTE 4N TO 32N NUMEROUS
DOWNED SMALL TREE LIMBS.  RIVERSIDE PARK SOUTH IN THE MECHANICVILLE
AREA HAD MANY SNAPPED TREES...A ROOF OF A RESIDENCE WAS LIFTED AND
STRIPPED BACK...AND AN 8 INCH TREE WAS DOWNED IN A PRIVATE BACKYARD. 
MANY ROOFS DAMAGED BY FALLING TREES.  PROSPECT AND SOUTH STREET IN
THE HALFMOON AREA NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWNED AND SMALL TREE DAMAGE.  NEAR
JOHNSON ROAD AND RAYLINSKI LANE TWO HAY CARTS WERE OVERTURNED BY THE
STRONG WIND AND THE SIDE OF A GARAGE WAS BLOWN OUT.
NEAR MC BRIDE ROAD PLAYHOUSE THERE WERE A NUMBER OF DOWNED TREES AND
A ROOF WAS LIFTED OFF BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS.

THE INVESTIGATION BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATES THAT THE
DAMAGE WAS NOT CAUSED BY A TORNADO.  DAMAGE WAS DUE TO WHAT IS CALLED
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS BLOWING FROM WEST TO EAST IN STRONG WIND DOWN
BURSTS FROM THE THUNDERSTORM AREAS.





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WWUS30 KALB 212100
LSRALB
 
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
457 PM EDT MON SEP 21 1998
 
TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 
0400 PM    MELROSE                   NY   WIND DAMAGE            
09/21/98   RENSSELAER                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN 
 
 


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