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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

January 31, 200811 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 31, 2008, 1:51 PM EST for 11 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 1, 2008, 4:22 AM EST. It was in force for 19 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 31, 2008, 1:51 PM EST (18:51 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 1, 2008, 4:22 AM EST
Expired: Feb 1, 2008, 11:09 PM EST
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -54 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 winter 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 31, 12:58 PM EST, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 12:58 PM EST, 53 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 31, 1:51 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ALY	Albany, Greene, Schenectady, Schoharie	15 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2008 Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2008 Winter Storm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2008 Every winter 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.