Alert archive / New York / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this wind advisory at Mar 3, 2012, 9:15 AM EST for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Mar 3, 2012, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2012, 9:15 AM EST (14:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 3, 2012, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2012, 9:24 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Warren County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:15 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 771 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 766 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
420 WWUS71 KALY 031415 NPWALY URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 915 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 NYZ032-033-038-042-082-032215- /O.NEW.KALY.WI.Y.0005.120303T1600Z-120304T0400Z/ NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-NORTHERN WARREN- NORTHERN FULTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATWELL...BIG MOOSE...EAGLE BAY... MCKEEVER...NOBLEBORO...NORTHWOOD...OLD FORGE...SPECULATOR... ILION...HERKIMER...LITTLE FALLS...MOHAWK...FRANKFORT... DOLGEVILLE...WARRENSBURG...NORTHVILLE...MAYFIELD 915 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS AND WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. * HAZARDS...STRONG WINDS. * WINDS...WEST-SOUTHWEST AROUND 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS COULD PROPEL LOOSE OBJECTS THAT ARE NOT TIED DOWN...AND MAY BRING DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED OR WIND GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
174 WWUS71 KALY 032103 NPWALY URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 403 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 NYZ032-033-038-042-082-040400- /O.CON.KALY.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-120304T0400Z/ NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-NORTHERN WARREN- NORTHERN FULTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATWELL...BIG MOOSE...EAGLE BAY... MCKEEVER...NOBLEBORO...NORTHWOOD...OLD FORGE...SPECULATOR... ILION...HERKIMER...LITTLE FALLS...MOHAWK...FRANKFORT... DOLGEVILLE...WARRENSBURG...NORTHVILLE...MAYFIELD 403 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS AND WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. * HAZARDS...STRONG WINDS. * WINDS...WEST-SOUTHWEST AROUND 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS COULD PROPEL LOOSE OBJECTS THAT ARE NOT TIED DOWN...AND MAY BRING DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS. ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED OR WIND GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
347 WWUS71 KALY 040224 NPWALY URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 924 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 NYZ032-033-038-042-082-040330- /O.CAN.KALY.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-120304T0400Z/ NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-NORTHERN WARREN- NORTHERN FULTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATWELL...BIG MOOSE...EAGLE BAY... MCKEEVER...NOBLEBORO...NORTHWOOD...OLD FORGE...SPECULATOR... ILION...HERKIMER...LITTLE FALLS...MOHAWK...FRANKFORT... DOLGEVILLE...WARRENSBURG...NORTHVILLE...MAYFIELD 924 PM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS...AND FOR THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. ALTHOUGH WIND GUSTS MAY OCCASIONALLY REACH 30 TO 40 MPH OVERNIGHT...THE THREAT FOR STRONGER WINDS HAS ENDED. $$
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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.