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Wind Chill Watch 2, NWS Albany, NY

January 5, 201410 counties in New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this wind chill watch at Jan 5, 2014, 4:34 AM EST for 10 counties in New York. It took effect at Jan 7, 2014, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2014, 4:34 AM EST (09:34 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 7, 2014, 12:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 6, 2014, 4:10 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 345 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: 2390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 368 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill watch 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 wind chill watch went out at Jan 5, 12:56 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 12:56 AM EST, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 4:34 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Watch	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	9 hr
Jan 5, 11:18 AM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	17 hr
Jan 5, 1:42 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	64 hr

Nearby

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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.