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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY

October 20, 20054 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 20, 2005, 3:12 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Oct 21, 2005, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 20, 2005, 3:12 AM EDT (07:12 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 21, 2005, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 21, 2005, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Hamilton County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2005-10-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2005-10-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 214 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 20, 3:12 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryALYAlbany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer and 6 more30 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2005Freeze Warnings in Vermont, 2005Every freeze warning in 2005

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.