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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 16, 2016

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 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 16, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1793 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 16, 2:15 PM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:15 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 4:54 AM EDT, 10 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 16, 3:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
313 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016

CTZ001-161930-
NORTHERN LITCHFIELD-
313 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL LITCHFIELD
COUNTY...

AT 312 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CANTON...OR 9
MILES NORTHWEST OF FARMINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL
NORTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:
BARKHAMPSTED CENTER...BEECH ROCK...PLEASANT VALLEY...TOWN HILL...
BARKHAMSTED...GOOSE GREEN...PINE MEADOW...PUDDLE TOWN AND BROWNS
CORNER.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.

LAT...LON 4190 7291 4190 7294 4185 7295 4184 7294
      4181 7295 4180 7299 4191 7301 4197 7289
TIME...MOT...LOC 1912Z 244DEG 24KT 4184 7294

JPV

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	43 min
Aug 16, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	38 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.