{"id":199928,"date":"2026-04-16T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:43:14","slug":"severe-storms-could-bring-hail-wind-or-even-a-tornado-to-albany-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199928\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe storms could bring hail, wind or even a tornado to Albany area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 Meteorologists are warning that rolling across the Capital Region on Thursday afternoon could bring damaging winds, hail and possibly even a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Center\u2019s Storm Prediction Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day1otlk.html\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a warning<\/a> for a slight risk of severe thunderstorms in upstate New York. The alert said the storm system\u2019s primary threats for the region are damaging gusts and the potential for a tornado to develop. An alert from the National Weather Service in Albany noted\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nwsalbany\/status\/2044692000536936589?s=46&amp;t=RZJdwT_hqDkefp_bsnd1gw\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">greatest risk would be later\u00a0in the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly are looking at the possibility for those storms to be on the stronger side,\u201d said Michael Main, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albany.<\/p>\n<p>The main concern is gusty, damaging winds that could reach 60 to 65 miles per hour, Main said. Hail of at least 1 inch in diameter is possible in some isolated areas. A tornado can\u2019t be ruled out, but Main said there is a very low chance of it forming in isolated areas.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-moving, heavy rain showers and thunderstorms will come from a cold front moving in from the west, colliding with a warm air mass that has given the Capital Region its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/weather\/article\/albany-hudson-valley-summer-like-weather-coming-22202146.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unusually warm temperatures<\/a>, Main said.<\/p>\n<p>The storms are expected to be stronger further west and north, such as in the Mohawk Valley and Adirondacks, where they could start as early as 4 p.m. The immediate Albany area is not expected to see severe weather until just after sunset; the storms are expected even further into the evening in the Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Main said flooding is not expected to be a risk, but lightning could be. He advised anyone who hears thunder to head inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY\u00a0\u2014 Meteorologists are warning that rolling across the Capital Region on Thursday afternoon could bring damaging winds, hail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33392,611,844,610,9,11,10,49,51,50,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-199928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-adk","9":"tag-hvexp","10":"tag-latestnews","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}