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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 8, 2019Warren County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2019, 4:52 AM EDT for Warren County, New York. It was in force for 23 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: Aug 8, 2019, 4:52 AM EDT (08:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2019, 5:15 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Warren County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 112 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 nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Aug 8, 4:24 AM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 4:24 AM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 4:34 AM EDT, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:52 AM 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
Aug 8, 3:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	48 min
Aug 8, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	49 min
Aug 8, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	41 min
Aug 8, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	26 min
Aug 8, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	27 min
Aug 8, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	41 min
Aug 8, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	28 min
Aug 8, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Otsego	52 min
Aug 8, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington	30 min
Aug 8, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Herkimer	66 min
Aug 8, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery, Schoharie	54 min
Aug 8, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	28 min
Aug 8, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	66 min
Aug 8, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga	26 min
Aug 8, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene, Ulster	66 min
Aug 8, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	34 min
Aug 8, 4:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga	2 hr
Aug 8, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Greene, Ulster	66 min
Aug 8, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	31 min
Aug 8, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady	51 min
Aug 8, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	47 min
Aug 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer	42 min
Aug 8, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington	39 min
Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	32 min
Aug 8, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	57 min
Aug 8, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington	61 min
Aug 8, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	39 min
Aug 8, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	49 min
Aug 8, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Bennington	26 min
Aug 8, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	36 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.