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Frost Advisory 10, NWS Albany, NY

October 7, 20069 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this frost advisory at Oct 7, 2006, 5:06 AM EDT for 9 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Oct 7, 2006, 4:39 PM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 2006, 5:06 AM EDT (09:06 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 7, 2006, 4:39 PM EDT
Expired
Oct 8, 2006, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:10 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 28 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 2006-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-39 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 7, 4:39 PM EDTFreeze WarningALYBerkshire16 hr

Nearby

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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.