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Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Albany, NY

January 3, 201815 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this wind chill watch at Jan 3, 2018, 3:50 AM EST for 15 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jan 5, 2018, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2018, 3:50 AM EST (08:50 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 5, 2018, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 4, 2018, 3:59 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 11 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: 1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 383 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 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 wind chill watch went out at Jan 3, 12:34 AM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 12:34 AM EST, 3 hours 16 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
Jan 3, 3:01 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Dutchess, Rensselaer, Ulster	27 hr
Jan 3, 3:01 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more	27 hr
Jan 3, 3:50 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Bennington, Windham	11 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Watches in New York, 2018 Wind Chill Watches in Vermont, 2018 Wind Chill Watches in Connecticut, 2018 Every wind chill watch 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.