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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this frost advisory at May 20, 2015, 4:19 AM EDT for 14 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at May 21, 2015, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 2015, 4:19 AM EDT (08:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 21, 2015, 1:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 21, 2015, 6:46 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 20 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at May 20, 1:51 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 1:51 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 514 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ058>061-063>066-201100- NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-WESTERN COLUMBIA- EASTERN COLUMBIA-WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS- EASTERN DUTCHESS- 514 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND THE SOUTHEAST CATSKILLS...MID HUDSON VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TACONICS OF EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING ACCOMPANYING A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION. ALTHOUGH A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO COULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND OR SMALL HAIL...THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AREAS OF FROST WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING...MAINLY FOR AREAS AWAY FROM THE IMMEDIATE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-082>084-VTZ013>015-201100- 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- NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN-SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-BENNINGTON- WESTERN WINDHAM-EASTERN WINDHAM- 514 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK NOT INCLUDING THE SOUTHEAST CATSKILLS...MID HUDSON VALLEY AND SOUTHERN TACONICS...AND FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF TEMPERATURES COLD ENOUGH FOR POSSIBLE FROST WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING...AND AGAIN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING...MAINLY ACROSS AREAS AWAY FROM THE IMMEDIATE HUDSON VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 19, 10:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 55 min |
| May 19, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess | 56 min |
| May 19, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 52 min |
Nearby
Frost Advisories in New York, 2015Frost Advisories in Vermont, 2015Frost Advisories in Massachusetts, 2015Every frost advisory in 2015
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.