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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

May 13, 201310 counties in New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this freeze warning at May 13, 2013, 3:25 AM EDT for 10 counties in New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at May 14, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2013, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
In effect from: May 14, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 14, 2013, 7:22 AM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2363 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at May 13, 1:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 1:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2013 Freeze Warnings in Connecticut, 2013 Every freeze warning in 2013

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.