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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

September 14, 2014Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this freeze warning at Sep 14, 2014, 2:06 AM EDT for Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It took effect at Sep 15, 2014, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
Sep 14, 2014, 2:06 AM EDT (06:06 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 15, 2014, 1:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 15, 2014, 6:38 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:11 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2014-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2014-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 2:06 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryALYAlbany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery and 6 more26 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2014Every freeze warning in 2014

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.