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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Albany, NY

July 11, 202010 counties in New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this heat advisory at Jul 11, 2020, 3:54 AM EDT for 10 counties in New York. It took effect at Jul 11, 2020, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 2020, 3:54 AM EDT (07:54 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 11, 2020, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 11, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 11, 1:32 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 1:32 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 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
Jul 11, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	36 min
Jul 11, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	35 min
Jul 11, 2:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Saratoga, Warren	75 min
Jul 11, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	31 min
Jul 11, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Putnam	24 min
Jul 11, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Oneida	33 min
Jul 11, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	37 min
Jul 11, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	32 min
Jul 11, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	31 min
Jul 11, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	35 min
Jul 11, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	34 min
Jul 11, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	31 min
Jul 11, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	101 min
Jul 11, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	27 min
Jul 11, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Saratoga, Warren	88 min
Jul 11, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	36 min
Jul 11, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	30 min
Jul 11, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Herkimer	33 min
Jul 11, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	26 min
Jul 11, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	64 min
Jul 11, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	35 min
Jul 11, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	27 min
Jul 11, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton	23 min
Jul 11, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	33 min

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.