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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 27, 2011, 2:47 PM EST for 15 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 28, 2011, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2011, 2:47 PM EST (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2011, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2011, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery 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), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 weather advisory 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 weather advisory went out at Feb 27, 2:41 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 2:41 PM EST, 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 10:21 AM EST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1021 AM EST SUN FEB 27 2011 MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-082>084-VTZ013>015- 281200- NORTHERN BERKSHIRE-SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON- SOUTHERN HERKIMER-SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA- NORTHERN WARREN-NORTHERN WASHINGTON-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY- EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY-EASTERN ALBANY- WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER-WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE- WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA-NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN- SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM- 1021 AM EST SUN FEB 27 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK EXCLUDING THE SOUTHEAST CATSKILLS...MID HUDSON VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TACONICS...AND SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ANOTHER STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE AREA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY NIGHT. INITIALLY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE A CHANGE OVER TO PLAIN RAIN OCCURS MONDAY MORNING. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. CTZ001-013-NYZ063>066-281200- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-WESTERN ULSTER- EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS- 1021 AM EST SUN FEB 27 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEAST CATSKILLS...MID HUDSON VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TACONICS OF EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ANOTHER STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL IMPACT THE AREA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY NIGHT. INITIALLY SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN ARE POSSIBLE BEFORE A CHANGE OVER TO PLAIN RAIN OCCURS MONDAY MORNING. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. ALSO...WITH THE WARMER TEMPERATURES LEADING TO SNOW MELT AND RAINFALL...THE POTENTIAL FOR HYDROLOGIC RELATED PROBLEMS INCLUDING SOME ICE BREAKUP AND ICE JAM FLOODING COULD BECOME AN ISSUE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 2:38 PM EST | Flood Watch | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 25 hr |
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in New York, 2011Winter Weather Advisories in Vermont, 2011Winter Weather Advisories in Massachusetts, 2011Every winter weather advisory 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.