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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

July 17, 2012Hamilton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2012, 9:20 PM EDT for Hamilton County, New York. It was in force for 25 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: Jul 17, 2012, 9:20 PM EDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2012, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Hamilton County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 935 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2300 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.2

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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 Jul 17, 7:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 7:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 8:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
616 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2012

NYZ032-033-172300-
HAMILTON NY-NORTHERN HERKIMER NY-
616 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN

  HAMILTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK...
  HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK...

AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORKED LAKE
PUBLIC CAMPGROUND...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTH OF OLD FORGE...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
FORKED LAKE PUBLIC CAMPGROUND AND 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKE EATON
CAMPGROUND BY 650 PM EDT
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE BY 655 PM EDT
LAKE DURANT CAMPGROUND BY 700 PM EDT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.

LAT...LON 4395 7429 4392 7432 4384 7424 4370 7436
      4405 7506 4409 7465
TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 302DEG 32KT 4408 7489

SNYDER

Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
640 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0547 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HAGUE                   43.75N  73.50W
07/17/2012                   WARREN             NY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES AND WIRES DOWN AT ROUTES 8 AND 9N.

&&

EVENT NUMBER ALY1200119

LFM

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 7:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 8:25 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 9:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 8:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren, Washington	42 min
Jul 17, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	23 min
Jul 17, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery, Schenectady	34 min
Jul 17, 11:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	29 min
Jul 17, 11:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer, Schenectady	32 min
Jul 18, 12:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	21 min
Jul 18, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	26 min
Jul 18, 1:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	27 min
Jul 18, 1:14 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	3 hr
Jul 18, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	59 min
Jul 18, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	57 min
Jul 18, 1:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess	103 min
Jul 18, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	56 min
Jul 18, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Putnam	26 min
Jul 18, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	66 min
Jul 18, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess	61 min
Jul 18, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	36 min
Jul 18, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	27 min
Jul 18, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	33 min
Jul 18, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	32 min
Jul 18, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	46 min
Jul 17, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rutland	50 min
Jul 18, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		34 min
Jul 18, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		36 min
Jul 18, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	32 min
Jul 18, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		48 min

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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.