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Heavy Snow Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

January 13, 2008Columbia County, Dutchess County, Rensselaer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this heavy snow warning at Jan 13, 2008, 3:52 AM EST for Columbia County, Dutchess County, Rensselaer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jan 13, 2008, 11:55 AM EST. It was in force for 24 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: Jan 13, 2008, 3:52 AM EST (08:52 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 13, 2008, 11:55 AM EST
Expired: Jan 14, 2008, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 12, 6:30 PM EST, 9 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 6:30 PM EST, 9 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 11:55 AM EST	Snow Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 8 more	24 hr

Nearby

Heavy Snow Warnings in New York, 2008 Heavy Snow Warnings in Vermont, 2008 Heavy Snow Warnings in Massachusetts, 2008 Every heavy snow 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.