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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 2014Hamilton County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2014, 2:18 PM EDT for Hamilton County, New York. It was in force for 57 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: Aug 3, 2014, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2014, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Hamilton County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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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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 Aug 3, 2:00 PM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:00 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 4:27 AM EDT, 9 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 1:24 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:18 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
218 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2014

NYZ032-033-038-031915-
HAMILTON NY-NORTHERN HERKIMER NY-SOUTHERN HERKIMER NY-
218 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2014

...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN

  HAMILTON COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK...
  HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK...

AT 215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL.  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTH OF EIGHTH LAKE CAMPGROUND...OR
ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF HINCKLEY...AND MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
8 MILES WEST OF CLOCKMILL CORNERS BY 220 PM EDT
MOREHOUSEVILLE AND NOBLEBORO BY 255 PM EDT
HOFFMEISTER AND MOUNTAIN HOME BY 300 PM EDT
6 MILES SOUTH OF HERKIMER LANDING AND 8 MILES SOUTH OF CASWELL LAKE
BY 315 PM EDT

RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED AN INCH AN HOUR FROM THESE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4378 7478 4374 7440 4327 7464 4329 7471
      4325 7471 4324 7477 4324 7490
TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 178DEG 5KT 4334 7478

WASULA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Otsego	51 min
Aug 3, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	53 min
Aug 3, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Oneida	60 min
Aug 3, 6:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Herkimer	6 hr
Aug 3, 7:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	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.