Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Oct 14, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT for Columbia County, New York. It was in force for 39 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
- Oct 14, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
County Columbia County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
019 WWUS81 KALY 141921 SPSALY SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 321 PM EDT FRI OCT 14 2011 NYZ059>061-065-066-142000- EASTERN GREENE NY-WESTERN DUTCHESS NY-EASTERN DUTCHESS NY- WESTERN COLUMBIA NY-EASTERN COLUMBIA NY- 321 PM EDT FRI OCT 14 2011 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL IN EASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK... NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK... COLUMBIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK... AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR CLERMONT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF SAUGERTIES...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... LIVINGSTON BY 325 PM EDT CLAVERACK AND CATSKILL BY 330 PM EDT HUDSON...ATHENS AND PHILMONT BY 335 PM EDT COXSACKIE BY 345 PM EDT KINDERHOOK AND VALATIE BY 350 PM EDT NEW BALTIMORE BY 355 PM EDT RAINFALL RATES OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE LOCATIONS IS LIKELY. LAT...LON 4243 7393 4247 7361 4192 7361 4194 7388 TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 183DEG 36KT 4211 7377 $$ JPV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Fulton | 48 min |
| Oct 14, 12:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Herkimer | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Herkimer | 45 min |
| Oct 14, 1:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 6 hr |
| Oct 14, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Herkimer | 44 min |
| Oct 14, 2:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Herkimer | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:37 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Warren | 31 hr |
| Oct 14, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Fulton | 48 min |
| Oct 14, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Ulster | 62 min |
| Oct 14, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Schoharie | 44 min |
| Oct 14, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Washington | 51 min |
| Oct 14, 7:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | ALY | Windham | 4 hr |
| Oct 14, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 40 min |
Nearby
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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.