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Winter Weather Advisory 21, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 1, 2018, 3:56 PM EST for 9 counties in New York; Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Mar 2, 2018, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2018, 3:56 PM EST (20:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2018, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2018, 9:11 PM EST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 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 weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Mar 1, 1:33 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 1:33 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 4:00 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more | 41 hr |
Nearby
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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.