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Snow Advisory 3, NWS Albany, NY

February 12, 2006Columbia County, Greene County, Ulster County, New York; Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this snow advisory at Feb 12, 2006, 9:55 AM EST for Columbia County, Greene County, Ulster County, New York; Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 12, 2006, 9:55 AM EST (14:55 UTC)
Expired
Feb 12, 2006, 4:07 PM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY, Greene County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:55 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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 2006-02-12Temperature 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 2006-02-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.