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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
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 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, 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.
- 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
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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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 FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/ALBANY
Special weather statement, Feb 1, 10:24 AM EST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 4:22 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 1, 2:52 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady | 8 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.