Alert archive / Vermont / Special Weather Statements in 2014

Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 7, 2014Rutland County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2014, 1:01 PM EDT for Rutland County, Vermont. It was in force for 29 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 7, 2014, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Rutland County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 55 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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 7, 12:44 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 12:44 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 4:04 AM EDT, 8 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
404 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2014

CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-
082>084-VTZ013>015-081100-
NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE-
SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER-
SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA-NORTHERN WARREN-
NORTHERN WASHINGTON-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY-
EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY-EASTERN ALBANY-
WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER-WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-
WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA-WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-
WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS-NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN-
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM-
404 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN
CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK AND
SOUTHERN VERMONT.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
EARLY EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...AND
SMALL HAIL. WHILE MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SUB
SEVERE...ONE OR TWO STORMS WITH MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AND OR
WIND CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 11:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1137 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2014

NYZ042-043-083-071600-
NORTHERN WASHINGTON NY-NORTHERN WARREN NY-SOUTHEAST WARREN NY-
1137 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN

  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...

AT 1132 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...AROUND HALF INCH HAIL...GUSTY
WINDS AROUND 40 MPH... AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF HAGUE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WHITEHALL...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HULETTS LANDING AND 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOLTON LANDING BY NOON EDT

LAT...LON 4365 7341 4365 7342 4362 7341 4359 7342
      4358 7340 4359 7339 4360 7338 4347 7330
      4342 7374 4378 7376 4380 7350
TIME...MOT...LOC 1537Z 347DEG 14KT 4373 7361

IRL

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:01 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
101 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2014

NYZ042-043-071730-
NORTHERN WASHINGTON NY-NORTHERN WARREN NY-
101 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN

  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...
  WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...

AT 100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...AROUND HALF INCH HAIL...WINDS
AROUND 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR HAGUE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF WHITEHALL...AND
MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HULETTS LANDING BY 110 PM EDT
WHITEHALL BY 130 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4377 7334 4375 7336 4372 7336 4369 7340
      4359 7342 4358 7340 4363 7337 4363 7332
      4353 7323 4346 7324 4342 7349 4375 7355
      4380 7337
TIME...MOT...LOC 1701Z 344DEG 14KT 4370 7342

IRL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 11:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	23 min
Aug 7, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	23 min
Aug 7, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	27 min
Aug 7, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	47 min
Aug 7, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	40 min
Aug 7, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington	47 min
Aug 7, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	32 min
Aug 7, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	31 min
Aug 7, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	43 min
Aug 7, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie	19 min
Aug 7, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	29 min
Aug 7, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	32 min
Aug 7, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	23 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Vermont, 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.