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Heavy Snow Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this heavy snow warning at Dec 12, 2007, 12:24 PM EST for 7 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Dec 12, 2007, 11:23 PM EST. It was in force for 21 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
- Dec 12, 2007, 12:24 PM EST (17:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 12, 2007, 11:23 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2007, 7:55 PM EST
- In force
- 21 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, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 115 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heavy snow warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heavy snow warning went out at Dec 12, 12:01 PM EST, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 12, 12:01 PM EST, 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 3:21 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 9 hr |
| Dec 12, 12:24 PM EST | Snow Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer and 7 more | 32 hr |
Nearby
Heavy Snow Warnings in New York, 2007Heavy Snow Warnings in Massachusetts, 2007Every heavy snow warning in 2007
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.