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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

February 1, 20085 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this ice storm warning at Feb 1, 2008, 2:52 PM EST for 5 counties in New York; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. 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
Feb 1, 2008, 2:52 PM EST (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Feb 1, 2008, 11:00 PM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Greene County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 33 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 2008-02-01Temperature 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 2008-02-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 311 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
511 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 ice storm 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 ice storm warning went out at Feb 1, 12:50 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 12:50 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 1, 11:02 AM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 1, 8:55 AM EST, 5 hours 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
855 AM EST FRI FEB 1 2008

NYZ058-063>066-011600-
WESTERN GREENE-WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-
EASTERN DUTCHESS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HUNTER...TANNERSVILLE...WINDHAM...
SUNDOWN...ELLENVILLE...WOODSTOCK...WEST HURLEY...KERHONKSON...
NAPANOCH...PHOENICIA...KINGSTON...NEW PALTZ...POUGHKEEPSIE...
BEACON...ARLINGTON...PAWLING...DOVER PLAINS...MILLBROOK...
PINE PLAINS...AMENIA...MILLERTON
855 AM EST FRI FEB 1 2008

...ACCUMULATING SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN EVOLVING ACROSS
THE CATSKILLS AND MID HUDSON VALLEY...

AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WAS
FAST APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND WILL IMPACT TRAVEL
CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH 10 AM.  AN ACCUMULATION
OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...UP TO ONE THIRD OF AN INCH...ARE
EXPECTED WHICH WILL CAUSE SLIPPERY UNTREATED ROADWAYS. IN
ADDITION...SOME ACCUMULATION ON TREES AND POWER LINES ARE
EXPECTED AS TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN BELOW FREEZING THROUGH MOST
OF THIS MORNING.

MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO TRAVEL WITH EXTREME CAUTION THIS MORNING
AND ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.  LEAVE PLENTY
OF ROOM BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORING MOTORISTS.

BGM

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Special weather statement, Feb 1, 10:24 AM EST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 1, 12:42 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 1, 4:22 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryALYAlbany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 2 more11 hr
Feb 1, 2:52 PM ESTFreezing Rain AdvisoryALYAlbany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady8 hr

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in New York, 2008Ice Storm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2008Every ice storm 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.