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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm watch at Feb 14, 2016, 3:14 PM EST for Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York. It took effect at Feb 15, 2016, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2016, 3:14 PM EST (20:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 15, 2016, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2016, 12:02 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 13, 6:59 PM EST, 20 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 6:59 PM EST, 20 hours 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 3:14 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer and 8 more | 46 hr |
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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.