Alert archive / New York / Winter Storm Watches in 2011
Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm watch at Jan 17, 2011, 4:07 AM EST for 11 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jan 18, 2011, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 2011, 4:07 AM EST (09:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 18, 2011, 5:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2011, 4:23 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 105 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 17, 3:50 AM EST, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 3:50 AM EST, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 4:23 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 4 more | 34 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:23 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie, Warren | 34 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2011Winter Storm Watches in Vermont, 2011Winter Storm Watches in Massachusetts, 2011Every winter storm watch 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.