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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Albany, NY

August 11, 20169 counties in New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this heat advisory at Aug 11, 2016, 10:52 AM EDT for 9 counties in New York. It took effect at Aug 11, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 2016, 10:52 AM EDT (14:52 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 11, 2016, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Aug 11, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:55 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 16 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: 687 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Aug 11, 6:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 6:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 27 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
Aug 11, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	33 min
Aug 11, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	24 min
Aug 11, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	36 min
Aug 11, 4:18 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 3 more	26 hr
Aug 11, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	31 min
Aug 11, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	25 min
Aug 11, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	33 min
Aug 11, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	22 min

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.