Alert archive / Connecticut / Red Flag Warnings in 2015
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this red flag warning at Apr 18, 2015, 4:10 AM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Apr 18, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2015, 4:10 AM EDT (08:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 18, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
464 WWUS81 KALY 180810 RFWALY URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 410 AM EDT SAT APR 18 2015 VTZ013-015-180915- /O.CAN.KALY.FW.A.0002.150418T1600Z-150419T0000Z/ BENNINGTON-EASTERN WINDHAM- 410 AM EDT SAT APR 18 2015 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR SOUTHERN VERMONT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS CANCELLED THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH. $$ CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-190000- /O.UPG.KALY.FW.A.0002.150418T1600Z-150419T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KALY.FW.W.0002.150418T1600Z-150419T0000Z/ NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER- SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA-NORTHERN WARREN- NORTHERN WASHINGTON-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY- EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY- EASTERN ALBANY-WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER- WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA- WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS- NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN-SOUTHERN WASHINGTON- 410 AM EDT SAT APR 18 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR ALL OF EASTERN NEW YORK...BERKSHIRE COUNTY OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND LITCHFIELD COUNTY OF NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT... * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...12 PM TO 8 PM SATURDAY. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES FROM THE MID TO UPPER 20S. * TEMPERATURES...AROUND 70 IN VALLEY LOCATIONS TO MAINLY 60S ELSEWHERE. * IMPACTS...FIRES MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND UNCONTROLLABLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS. ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP MAY QUICKLY GET OUT OF CONTROL AND BECOME DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN. && $$
2 follow-up statements
044 WWUS81 KALY 181622 RFWALY URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1222 PM EDT SAT APR 18 2015 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-190000- /O.CON.KALY.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150419T0000Z/ 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- 1222 PM EDT SAT APR 18 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...THE BERKSHIRES AND NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 25 TO 35 MPH. * TIMING...INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES IN THE 20S. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE 60S AND 70S. * IMPACTS...FIRES MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND UNCONTROLLABLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...AND DRY FUELS. ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP MAY QUICKLY GET OUT OF CONTROL AND BECOME DIFFICULT TO CONTAIN. && $$
050 WWUS81 KALY 190001 RFWALY URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 801 PM EDT SAT APR 18 2015 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-190115- /O.EXP.KALY.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-150419T0000Z/ NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE- SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE-NORTHERN HERKIMER-HAMILTON-SOUTHERN HERKIMER- SOUTHERN FULTON-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN SARATOGA-NORTHERN WARREN- NORTHERN WASHINGTON-SCHOHARIE-WESTERN SCHENECTADY- EASTERN SCHENECTADY-SOUTHERN SARATOGA-WESTERN ALBANY- EASTERN ALBANY-WESTERN RENSSELAER-EASTERN RENSSELAER- WESTERN GREENE-EASTERN GREENE-WESTERN COLUMBIA-EASTERN COLUMBIA- WESTERN ULSTER-EASTERN ULSTER-WESTERN DUTCHESS-EASTERN DUTCHESS- NORTHERN FULTON-SOUTHEAST WARREN-SOUTHERN WASHINGTON- 801 PM EDT SAT APR 18 2015 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK...THE BERKSHIRES AND NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT... WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW RED FLAG THRESHOLDS...AND WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE OVERNIGHT. THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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.