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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

July 7, 2013Fulton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2013, 6:30 AM EDT for Fulton County, New York. It was in force for 30 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 7, 2013, 6:30 AM EDT (10:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2013, 7:00 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Fulton County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 308 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 7, 6:30 AM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 6:30 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 5:23 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:07 AM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:30 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 6:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Oneida	23 min
Jul 7, 7:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery	30 min
Jul 7, 7:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie	29 min
Jul 7, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	32 min
Jul 7, 1:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Ulster	3 hr
Jul 7, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	29 min
Jul 7, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	27 min
Jul 7, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	38 min
Jul 7, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	38 min
Jul 7, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster	32 min
Jul 7, 2:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia	6 hr
Jul 7, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	45 min
Jul 7, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	41 min
Jul 7, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	31 min
Jul 7, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	44 min
Jul 7, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	56 min
Jul 7, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	32 min
Jul 7, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	23 min
Jul 7, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	63 min
Jul 7, 4:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady	3 hr
Jul 7, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	24 min
Jul 7, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	34 min
Jul 7, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	27 min
Jul 7, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Schoharie	3 hr
Jul 7, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	51 min
Jul 7, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady, Schoharie	67 min
Jul 7, 7:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie	3 hr
Jul 7, 7:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 7, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rutland	24 min
Jul 7, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		32 min
Jul 7, 4:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	3 hr
Jul 7, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		25 min
Jul 7, 2:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	3 hr

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.