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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm watch at Jan 15, 2018, 3:35 AM EST for Columbia County, Rensselaer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jan 16, 2018, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2018, 3:35 AM EST (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2018, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2018, 3:09 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Columbia County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 Jan 15, 12:28 AM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 12:28 AM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 3:23 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more | 51 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2018Winter Storm Watches in Vermont, 2018Winter Storm Watches in Connecticut, 2018Every winter storm 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.