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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 21, 2011Hamilton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2011, 9:34 AM EDT for Hamilton County, New York. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 21, 2011, 9:34 AM EDT (13:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2011, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Hamilton County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 21, 7:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 7:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 4:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 21, 8:54 AM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 9:34 AM EDT, 0 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
Aug 21, 8:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	51 min
Aug 21, 10:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	56 min
Aug 21, 11:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	61 min
Aug 21, 11:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	35 min
Aug 21, 11:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	47 min
Aug 21, 11:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	46 min
Aug 21, 11:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	43 min
Aug 21, 12:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	46 min
Aug 21, 12:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	28 min
Aug 21, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	36 min
Aug 21, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	62 min
Aug 21, 12:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	40 min
Aug 21, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady	40 min
Aug 21, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	63 min
Aug 21, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington	56 min
Aug 21, 1:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess	104 min
Aug 21, 1:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Dutchess	39 min
Aug 21, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	60 min
Aug 21, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	61 min
Aug 21, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	38 min
Aug 21, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	37 min
Aug 21, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	27 min
Aug 21, 4:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Warren	3 hr
Aug 21, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	23 min
Aug 21, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	34 min
Aug 21, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	27 min
Aug 21, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	25 min
Aug 21, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	26 min
Aug 21, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	22 min
Aug 21, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	36 min
Aug 21, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	34 min
Aug 21, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	67 min
Aug 21, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene, Ulster	39 min
Aug 21, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	65 min
Aug 21, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	42 min
Aug 21, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	22 min
Aug 21, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	34 min
Aug 21, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	31 min
Aug 21, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	33 min
Aug 21, 7:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	3 hr
Aug 21, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	35 min
Aug 21, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Bennington, Windham	54 min
Aug 21, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	32 min
Aug 21, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	26 min
Aug 21, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	26 min
Aug 21, 7:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	4 hr
Aug 21, 7:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Berkshire	39 min
Aug 21, 7:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr
Aug 21, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	48 min
Aug 21, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		37 min
Aug 21, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		47 min
Aug 21, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		27 min

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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.