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Lake Effect Snow Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

January 10, 2016Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Jan 10, 2016, 2:20 AM EST for Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It took effect at Jan 10, 2016, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 27 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: Jan 10, 2016, 2:20 AM EST (07:20 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 10, 2016, 10:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 12, 2016, 12:31 AM EST
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 329 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: 722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 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 lake effect snow warning 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Jan 10, 12:43 AM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 12:43 AM EST, 1 hour 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
Jan 10, 2:31 AM EST	Wind Advisory	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schenectady	24 hr
Jan 10, 10:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	8 hr
Jan 10, 1:00 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	45 min
Jan 10, 1:36 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Ulster	3 hr
Jan 10, 3:15 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Greene	60 min
Jan 10, 3:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	56 min
Jan 10, 4:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington	61 min
Jan 10, 1:20 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	25 min

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in New York, 2016 Every lake effect snow warning in 2016

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.