Alert archive / New York / Freeze Warnings in 2008
Freeze Warning 9, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 7, 2008, 4:45 AM EDT for 8 counties in New York; Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Oct 8, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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 7, 2008, 4:45 AM EDT (08:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 8, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2008, 8:21 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in New York, 2008Freeze Warnings in Vermont, 2008Every freeze warning in 2008
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.