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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

October 14, 2011Columbia County, New York

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 374 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 2:54 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYColumbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster2 hr
Oct 14, 12:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYFulton48 min
Oct 14, 12:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYHerkimer3 hr
Oct 14, 12:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYHerkimer45 min
Oct 14, 1:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYHerkimer6 hr
Oct 14, 2:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYHerkimer44 min
Oct 14, 2:44 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryALYHerkimer3 hr
Oct 14, 3:37 PM EDTWind AdvisoryALYFulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Warren31 hr
Oct 14, 3:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYFulton48 min
Oct 14, 4:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYUlster62 min
Oct 14, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYSchoharie44 min
Oct 14, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYWashington51 min
Oct 14, 7:58 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningALYWindham4 hr
Oct 14, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYBerkshire40 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2011Every special weather statement 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.