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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 3, 2020Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2020, 10:55 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 65 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 3, 2020, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 3, 8:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 8:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 4:04 PM EDT, 6 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 3, 6:47 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 6:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 10:55 PM 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 4, 6:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	39 min
Aug 4, 6:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	32 min
Aug 4, 10:04 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 1 more	88 min
Aug 4, 11:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	49 min
Aug 4, 1:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer	26 min
Aug 4, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	34 min
Aug 4, 2:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Ulster	3 hr
Aug 4, 2:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Greene, Rensselaer	5 hr
Aug 4, 2:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Saratoga, Schoharie	5 hr
Aug 4, 3:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 2 more	4 hr
Aug 4, 3:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene, Schoharie, Ulster	3 hr
Aug 4, 4:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie	3 hr
Aug 4, 4:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, Washington	3 hr
Aug 4, 9:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	48 min
Aug 4, 9:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	46 min
Aug 4, 9:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	31 min
Aug 4, 9:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	48 min
Aug 4, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	30 min
Aug 4, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	27 min
Aug 4, 2:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Bennington, Windham	25 min
Aug 4, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	25 min
Aug 4, 7:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		48 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.