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Snow Advisory 2, NWS Albany, NY

February 11, 20066 counties in New York; Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this snow advisory at Feb 11, 2006, 3:44 PM EST for 6 counties in New York; Bennington County, Vermont. It took effect at Feb 12, 2006, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 2006, 3:44 PM EST (20:44 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 12, 2006, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 12, 2006, 9:55 AM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 22 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 12:00Z on 2006-02-11Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2006-02-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 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
Feb 11, 3:44 PM ESTHeavy Snow WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster24 hr

Nearby

Snow Advisories in New York, 2006Snow Advisories in Vermont, 2006Every snow advisory in 2006

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.