Alert archive / New York / High Wind Watches in 2008
High Wind Watch 4, NWS Burlington, VT
NWS Burlington, VT issued this high wind watch at Dec 27, 2008, 3:45 AM EST for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Dec 28, 2008, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2008, 3:45 AM EST (08:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 28, 2008, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2008, 2:30 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Burlington, VT
Counties Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 556 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Burlington, VT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Dec 27, 12:43 AM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 12:43 AM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Burlington, VT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 3:32 AM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | BTV | Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Orleans | 12 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in New York, 2008Every high wind watch 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.