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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Dec 25, 2010, 5:35 PM EST for 10 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Dec 26, 2010, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 22 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
- Dec 25, 2010, 5:35 PM EST (22:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 26, 2010, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2010, 11:28 AM EST
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 25, 3:32 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 3:32 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 4:08 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 3 more | 24 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2010Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2010Winter Storm Warnings in Connecticut, 2010Every winter storm warning in 2010
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.