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Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS Albany, NY

November 21, 20188 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this wind chill advisory at Nov 21, 2018, 3:19 AM EST for 8 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Nov 22, 2018, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 21, 2018, 3:19 AM EST (08:19 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 22, 2018, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 22, 2018, 11:59 AM EST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 30 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: 785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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 wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Nov 21, 12:51 AM EST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 21, 12:51 AM EST, 2 hours 28 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
Nov 21, 10:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	62 min
Nov 21, 11:02 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Warren	58 min
Nov 21, 11:54 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Saratoga, Warren	66 min
Nov 21, 12:30 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren and 1 more	60 min
Nov 21, 1:17 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Washington	43 min
Nov 21, 1:56 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Washington	49 min
Nov 21, 2:28 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	32 min
Nov 21, 2:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	45 min
Nov 21, 3:00 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene	60 min
Nov 21, 3:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	66 min

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in New York, 2018 Wind Chill Advisories in Vermont, 2018 Every wind chill advisory in 2018

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.