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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Albany, NY

July 25, 2016Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this heat advisory at Jul 25, 2016, 4:03 AM EDT for Dutchess County, Ulster County, New York. It took effect at Jul 25, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2016, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 25, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 25, 2016, 3:50 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Dutchess County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 1555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 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 heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 25, 2:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 4:26 PM EDT, 11 hours 37 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
Jul 25, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene, Ulster	41 min
Jul 25, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster	48 min
Jul 25, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	46 min

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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.