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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

January 17, 20206 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 17, 2020, 3:13 PM EST for 6 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jan 18, 2020, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 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 17, 2020, 3:13 PM EST (20:13 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 18, 2020, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 19, 2020, 12:49 PM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington 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 20:13 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 16, 6:40 PM EST, 20 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 16, 6:40 PM EST, 20 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 16, 6:32 PM EST, 20 hours 41 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
Jan 17, 3:46 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Saratoga, Warren and 1 more	11 hr
Jan 17, 3:46 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer and 3 more	45 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2020 Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2020 Winter Storm Warnings in Connecticut, 2020 Every winter storm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.