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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 28, 2019, 4:08 PM EST for 7 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jan 29, 2019, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 26 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2019, 4:08 PM EST (21:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 29, 2019, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2019, 3:16 AM EST
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 1362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 warning 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 warning went out at Jan 27, 6:49 PM EST, 21 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 6:49 PM EST, 21 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 7:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 44 min |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2019Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2019Winter Storm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2019Every winter storm warning in 2019
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.