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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

June 9, 2021Schenectady County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2021, 4:02 PM EDT for Schenectady County, New York. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 9, 2021, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY

County Schenectady County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 15 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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

741 
WWUS81 KALY 092002
SPSALY

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
402 PM EDT Wed Jun 9 2021

NYZ048>054-061-092045-
Eastern Albany-Eastern Columbia-Western Rensselaer-Eastern
Schenectady-Eastern Rensselaer-Western Schenectady-Southern
Saratoga-Western Albany-
402 PM EDT Wed Jun 9 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SCHENECTADY...
NORTHEASTERN ALBANY AND SOUTHERN RENSSELAER COUNTIES...

At 401 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Scotia, moving
southeast at 35 mph.

Winds of 40 to 45  mph and half inch hail are possible with this 
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Rotterdam, East Greenbush, Cohoes,
Watervliet, Rensselaer, Colonie, Scotia, Nassau, Delmar, Latham,
Guilderland, Niskayuna, Duanesburg, Menands, Stephentown,
Voorheesville and Green Island.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 88 between exits 24 and 25.
 Interstate 90 between exits 10 and 26.
 Interstate 890 between exits 1a and 9.
 Interstate 87 between exits 22 and 7.
 Interstate 787 between exits 1 and 9.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause 
localized poor drainage flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through 
flooded roadways.

LAT...LON 4260 7338 4241 7359 4249 7357 4247 7372
      4278 7416 4292 7401
TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 309DEG 31KT 4281 7401 

$$

Wasula

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton	40 min
Jun 9, 2:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Fulton	53 min
Jun 9, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery	33 min
Jun 9, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	34 min
Jun 9, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Montgomery	39 min
Jun 9, 3:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	58 min
Jun 9, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	41 min
Jun 9, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	40 min
Jun 9, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	41 min
Jun 9, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia, Greene	43 min
Jun 9, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	24 min
Jun 9, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	40 min
Jun 9, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	38 min
Jun 9, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		26 min

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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.