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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

September 2, 2013Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Sep 2, 2013, 3:08 AM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 67 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: Sep 2, 2013, 3:08 AM EDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 2013, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Berkshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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.

733 
WWUS81 KALY 020708
SPSALY

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
308 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013

MAZ001-025-020815-
SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE MA-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE MA-
308 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN

  BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...

AT 304 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...WINDS AROUND 45 MPH...AND HEAVY
RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LENOX...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF PITTSFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
PITTSFIELD BY 325 AM EDT
SAVOY BY 415 AM EDT

RAINFALL RATES MAY APPROACH AN INCH IN AN HOUR FROM THIS 
THUNDERSTORM CAUSING PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE 
FLOODING.

LAT...LON 4255 7297 4251 7296 4238 7301 4237 7303
      4238 7306 4236 7306 4224 7334 4232 7343
      4244 7338 4264 7295 4263 7295
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 225DEG 16KT 4239 7333

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WASULA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 2, 12:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	61 min
Sep 2, 1:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	23 min
Sep 2, 1:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	31 min
Sep 2, 1:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	25 min
Sep 2, 2:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	57 min
Sep 2, 2:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia	3 hr
Sep 2, 2:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	38 min
Sep 2, 4:38 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Rensselaer	15 hr
Sep 2, 4:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery, Schoharie	53 min
Sep 2, 7:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	44 min
Sep 2, 8:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	60 min
Sep 2, 8:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	3 hr
Sep 2, 12:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	65 min
Sep 2, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	33 min
Sep 2, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	28 min
Sep 2, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	22 min
Sep 2, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Lewis	28 min
Sep 2, 5:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
Sep 2, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	55 min
Sep 2, 5:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	3 hr
Sep 2, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery	64 min
Sep 2, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	31 min
Sep 2, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren and 1 more	63 min
Sep 2, 1:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	66 min
Sep 2, 2:34 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Bennington, Windham	3 hr
Sep 2, 3:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	51 min
Sep 2, 4:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Windham	3 hr
Sep 2, 7:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington, Windham	55 min
Sep 2, 8:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	53 min
Sep 2, 9:13 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Windham	3 hr
Sep 2, 10:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	3 hr

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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.