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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

July 23, 2012Fulton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2012, 9:21 PM EDT for Fulton County, New York. It was in force for 54 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 23, 2012, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2012, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Fulton County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 1455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

618 
WWUS81 KALY 240121
SPSALY

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
921 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2012

NYZ038>040-082-240215-
MONTGOMERY NY-SOUTHERN FULTON NY-NORTHERN FULTON NY-
SOUTHERN HERKIMER NY-
921 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN

  WESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK...
  SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK...
  SOUTHERN HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK...

AT 919 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM LITTLE FALLS TO ILION TO 12 MILES WEST OF WEST WINFIELD...OR
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LITTLE FALLS TO ILION TO 14 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF UTICA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
WEST WINFIELD BY 940 PM EDT
CEDARVILLE BY 945 PM EDT
ST. JOHNSVILLE AND JORDANVILLE BY 1000 PM EDT
GLOVERSVILLE BY 1005 PM EDT
EPHRATAH BY 1010 PM EDT
JOHNSTOWN...FORT PLAIN AND CANAJOHARIE BY 1015 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4289 7521 4301 7521 4310 7476 4313 7425
      4296 7437 4284 7470 4289 7487 4284 7488
      4282 7490 4290 7509 4285 7514 4286 7522
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 270DEG 30KT 4306 7477 4302 7502
          4294 7540

$$
KL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	25 min
Jul 23, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	47 min
Jul 23, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	31 min
Jul 23, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	43 min
Jul 23, 10:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	38 min
Jul 23, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	42 min
Jul 23, 11:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer	56 min
Jul 23, 11:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery	50 min
Jul 24, 12:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery	53 min
Jul 24, 1:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	57 min
Jul 24, 1:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	59 min
Jul 24, 1:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	26 min
Jul 24, 2:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	37 min
Jul 24, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	48 min
Jul 24, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	39 min
Jul 24, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	33 min
Jul 24, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	67 min
Jul 23, 11:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	28 min
Jul 24, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		23 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.