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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 27, 2011

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2011, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 60 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 27, 2011, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 27, 7:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 7:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 27, 4:41 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 27, 4:06 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 6:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:00 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1000 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2011

CTZ013-280300-
SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD CT-
1000 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2011

...HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTER BANDS OF IRENE ACROSS
LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...

AT 948 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
BAND OF HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY.  THIS BAND IS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTER PORTION OF IRENE.

EXPECT AN ADDITIONAL QUARTER TO LOCALLY HALF AN INCH OF RAIN WITH
THIS BAND.  WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED...THIS RAIN WILL
PRODUCE SOME LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND AREAS OF
POOR DRAINAGE.  THE RAIN WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THROUGH THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS.

LAT...LON 4173 7327 4180 7301 4164 7298 4162 7302
      4161 7302 4161 7304 4159 7305 4156 7310
      4155 7317
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 160DEG 22KT 4154 7302

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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 28, 2:18 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	6 hr
Aug 28, 2:46 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess	6 hr
Aug 28, 4:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia	6 hr
Aug 28, 5:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	21 hr
Aug 28, 5:55 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greene, Schoharie	17 hr
Aug 28, 5:55 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Schoharie	23 hr
Aug 28, 7:17 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Schoharie	6 hr
Aug 28, 7:21 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	64 hr
Aug 28, 7:43 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	33 hr
Aug 28, 7:56 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess	29 hr
Aug 28, 8:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	13 hr
Aug 28, 8:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	12 hr
Aug 28, 8:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess	12 hr
Aug 28, 8:51 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	6 hr
Aug 28, 9:17 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	38 hr
Aug 28, 9:17 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Schoharie	20 hr
Aug 28, 9:17 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schoharie	20 hr
Aug 28, 9:17 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	38 hr
Aug 28, 9:19 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	32 hr
Aug 28, 10:42 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess	41 hr
Aug 28, 10:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia	23 hr
Aug 28, 11:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	6 hr
Aug 28, 11:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess	3 hr
Aug 28, 12:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	6 hr
Aug 28, 12:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ALY	Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie	48 hr
Aug 28, 2:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	12 hr
Aug 28, 3:14 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Montgomery	16 hr
Aug 28, 3:36 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Washington	35 hr
Aug 28, 4:50 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady	33 hr
Aug 28, 4:54 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga	48 hr
Aug 28, 4:54 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	43 hr
Aug 28, 5:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	42 hr
Aug 28, 5:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Washington	34 hr
Aug 28, 5:06 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	34 hr
Aug 28, 6:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	14 hr
Aug 28, 6:34 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	22 hr
Aug 28, 6:38 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida	5 hr
Aug 28, 9:19 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Bennington	20 hr
Aug 28, 10:32 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Bennington	21 hr
Aug 28, 10:32 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Windham	17 hr
Aug 28, 10:32 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Windham	11 hr
Aug 28, 11:16 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Windham	6 hr
Aug 28, 4:58 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Berkshire, Hampden	22 hr
Aug 28, 10:47 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Berkshire	18 hr
Aug 28, 12:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Berkshire	6 hr
Aug 28, 3:42 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Berkshire	44 hr
Aug 28, 12:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		25 min
Aug 28, 1:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	6 hr
Aug 28, 3:03 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region	50 hr
Aug 28, 5:20 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	4 days
Aug 28, 7:50 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	27 hr
Aug 28, 8:11 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	5 days
Aug 28, 1:30 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	4 days

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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.