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Frost Advisory 8, NWS Albany, NY

October 17, 20205 counties in New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this frost advisory at Oct 17, 2020, 3:25 AM EDT for 5 counties in New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Oct 18, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 17, 2020, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 18, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 18, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:27 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 323 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2020-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2020-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 3:25 AM EDTFreeze WarningALYSaratoga, Schenectady30 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.