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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 13, 2016Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2016, 11:02 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 2016, 11:02 PM EDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2016, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 2222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1393 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 13, 7:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 7:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 13, 7:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
605 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016

NYZ054-084-VTZ013-014-132245-
SOUTHERN WASHINGTON-EASTERN RENSSELAER-BENNINGTON-WESTERN WINDHAM-
605 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN RENSSELAER...
SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON...NORTHERN BENNINGTON AND WEST CENTRAL
WINDHAM COUNTIES...

AT 605 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CAMBRIDGE...OR
NEAR HOOSICK FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SHAFTSBURY AROUND 615 PM EDT.
  ARLINGTON AROUND 625 PM EDT.
  MANCHESTER AROUND 640 PM EDT.
  MANCHESTER CENTER AROUND 645 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE PUMPKIN HOOK...WHITE
CREEK...BOUPLON CORNER...EAGLEVILLE...PETERS FOUR CORNERS...STRATTON
MOUNTAIN...MANCHESTER DEPOT...GLASTENBURY...STRATTON ACRES AND
SHAFTSBURY CENTER.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 4310 7280 4286 7342 4292 7346 4294 7346
      4295 7347 4326 7313
TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 235DEG 26KT 4297 7331

FRUGIS

Local storm report, Aug 13, 6:09 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
609 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HERKIMER                43.03N  74.99W
08/13/2016                   HERKIMER           NY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MULTIPLE TREES DOWN

&&

EVENT NUMBER ALY1602013

WASULA

Local storm report, Aug 13, 6:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
643 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0413 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 ENE SOUTH CAMBRIDGE   42.97N  73.47W
08/13/2016                   WASHINGTON         NY   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            TREES DOWN ALONG ROUTE 59A

0427 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PITTSTOWN               42.84N  73.48W
08/13/2016                   RENSSELAER         NY   911 CALL CENTER

            2 TREES DOWN.

0500 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 SSW HOOSICK FALLS     42.89N  73.36W
08/13/2016                   RENSSELAER         NY   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            TREE DOWN ACROSS BOVEE HILL ROAD AND LESTER LANE

0600 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HERKIMER                43.03N  74.99W
08/13/2016                   HERKIMER           NY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MULTIPLE TREES DOWN

&&

EVENT NUMBER ALY1602010 ALY1602011 ALY1602012 ALY1602013

WASULA

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 7:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 7:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 7:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 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 13, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	47 min
Aug 13, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	25 min
Aug 13, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess	42 min
Aug 13, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	31 min
Aug 13, 9:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	33 min
Aug 13, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	52 min
Aug 14, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	49 min
Aug 14, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	32 min
Aug 14, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Putnam	37 min
Aug 13, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Windham	25 min
Aug 13, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		39 min
Aug 13, 9:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	34 min
Aug 13, 10:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		24 min
Aug 13, 11:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		40 min
Aug 13, 11:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	38 min
Aug 14, 12:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		35 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.