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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

May 16, 2021

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2021, 1:01 PM EDT. It was in force for 44 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
May 16, 2021, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2021, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2021-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 24 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2021-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 12:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYUlster40 min
May 16, 12:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALYUlster40 min
May 16, 12:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementALY60 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.