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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

February 27, 2014Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Feb 27, 2014, 3:25 PM EST for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 35 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: Feb 27, 2014, 3:25 PM EST (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Feb 27, 2014, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Berkshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 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.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 27, 3:52 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	ALY	Herkimer	24 hr
Feb 27, 3:52 AM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	ALY	Albany, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery and 5 more	29 hr
Feb 27, 1:50 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	55 min
Feb 27, 2:16 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	59 min
Feb 27, 2:27 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	48 min
Feb 27, 2:36 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	24 min
Feb 27, 2:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	50 min
Feb 27, 3:09 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	51 min
Feb 27, 3:23 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	22 min
Feb 27, 3:38 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	52 min
Feb 27, 3:44 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer, Schenectady	31 min
Feb 27, 4:04 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene	56 min
Feb 27, 4:17 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	43 min
Feb 27, 4:43 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	47 min
Feb 27, 5:00 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington	45 min
Feb 27, 5:16 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	29 min
Feb 27, 5:43 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	47 min
Feb 27, 5:46 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren	44 min
Feb 27, 6:09 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Greene, Rensselaer	51 min
Feb 27, 4:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington, Windham	50 min
Feb 27, 6:31 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	44 min
Feb 27, 6:23 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY		37 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Massachusetts, 2014 Every special weather statement 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.