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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS Albany, NY

December 10, 2016Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm watch at Dec 10, 2016, 3:33 PM EST for Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Dec 11, 2016, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 10, 2016, 3:33 PM EST (20:33 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 11, 2016, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 11, 2016, 3:40 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 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 Dec 10, 12:42 PM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 10, 12:42 PM EST, 2 hours 51 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
Dec 10, 3:33 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more	42 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2016 Winter Storm Watches in Vermont, 2016 Every winter storm watch 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.