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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Albany, NY

May 10, 200912 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this frost advisory at May 10, 2009, 3:56 AM EDT for 12 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at May 11, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2009, 3:56 AM EDT (07:56 UTC)
In effect from
May 11, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 11, 2009, 6:34 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 16 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 00:00Z on 2009-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 108 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2009-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 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
108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at May 9, 7:55 PM EDT, 8 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 7:55 PM EDT, 8 hours 1 minute before
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Frost Advisories in New York, 2009Frost Advisories in Vermont, 2009Frost Advisories in Massachusetts, 2009Every frost advisory in 2009

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.