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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Albany, NY

December 23, 2020Columbia County, Dutchess County, Rensselaer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this high wind watch at Dec 23, 2020, 3:35 AM EST for Columbia County, Dutchess County, Rensselaer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Dec 24, 2020, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2020, 3:35 AM EST (08:35 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2020, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 23, 2020, 3:18 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Dec 23, 12:59 AM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 12:59 AM EST, 2 hours 36 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
Dec 23, 3:18 PM EST	High Wind Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 3 more	43 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in New York, 2020 High Wind Watches in Vermont, 2020 High Wind Watches in Connecticut, 2020 Every high wind watch in 2020

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.