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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

June 30, 2017Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2017, 10:46 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 30, 2017, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2017, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Berkshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.6

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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 Jun 30, 10:39 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 10:39 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 8:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 8:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 8:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 8:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 9:50 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 9:57 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 10:46 PM EDT, 0 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
Jul 1, 6:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Oneida	64 min
Jul 1, 7:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery	49 min
Jul 1, 8:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	33 min
Jul 1, 8:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	52 min
Jul 1, 9:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	2 hr
Jul 1, 10:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	43 min
Jul 1, 11:27 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	3 hr
Jul 1, 12:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	4 hr
Jul 1, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	31 min
Jul 1, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren	66 min
Jul 1, 2:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Warren, Washington	3 hr
Jul 1, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	61 min
Jul 1, 3:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Saratoga, Warren	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Warren, Washington	6 hr
Jul 1, 3:34 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	17 hr
Jul 1, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery	61 min
Jul 1, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	26 min
Jul 1, 4:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Washington	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer	12 hr
Jul 1, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton	46 min
Jul 1, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	36 min
Jul 1, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	34 min
Jul 1, 5:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	11 min
Jul 1, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	34 min
Jul 1, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	39 min
Jul 1, 5:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Washington	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	23 min
Jul 1, 5:54 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Oneida	50 hr
Jul 1, 5:54 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida	22 hr
Jul 1, 6:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady	58 min
Jul 1, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Washington	66 min
Jul 1, 6:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	3 hr
Jul 1, 6:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga	3 hr
Jul 1, 7:07 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Hamilton	7 hr
Jul 1, 7:39 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	ALY	Washington	17 hr
Jun 30, 9:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		33 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.