Alert archive / Vermont / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2012, 2:13 PM EDT for Windham County, Vermont. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 4, 2012, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
County Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
387 WWUS81 KALY 041813 SPSALY SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 213 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012 VTZ014-041845- WESTERN WINDHAM VT- 213 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WINDHAM COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT... AT 207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WILMINGTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF BRATTLEBORO. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILMINGTON BY 245 PM EDT RAINFALL RATES COULD REACH AN INCH AN HOUR FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 4274 7279 4285 7293 4302 7288 4289 7266 TIME...MOT...LOC 1812Z 122DEG 1KT 4286 7283 $$ TAW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Windham | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Windham | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 3:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Bennington, Windham | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Franklin | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 109 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Vermont, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.