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Freeze Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY

October 27, 201112 counties in New York; Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 27, 2011, 3:07 AM EDT for 12 counties in New York; Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Oct 27, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 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: Oct 27, 2011, 3:07 AM EDT (07:07 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 27, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 28, 2011, 8:19 AM EDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 27, 1:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 1:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 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
Oct 27, 11:38 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Bennington, Windham	11 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2011 Freeze Warnings in Vermont, 2011 Every freeze warning in 2011

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.