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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

November 13, 20128 counties in New York; Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Nov 13, 2012, 12:54 AM EST for 8 counties in New York; Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 51 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: Nov 13, 2012, 12:54 AM EST (05:54 UTC)
Expired: Nov 13, 2012, 1:45 AM EST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 10:42 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer	63 min
Nov 12, 11:47 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Schoharie, Warren	58 min
Nov 13, 1:48 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Ulster, Washington	57 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2012 Special Weather Statements in Vermont, 2012 Every 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.