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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

September 15, 2021Ulster County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Sep 15, 2021, 7:39 PM EDT for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 36 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: Sep 15, 2021, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 30

County Ulster County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 856 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.3

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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 Sep 15, 7:30 PM EDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 7:30 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 15, 6:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 15, 6:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 15, 6:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 15, 6:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 15, 6:51 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 15, 7:12 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 15, 7:39 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
Sep 15, 7:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Hamilton, Herkimer	58 min
Sep 15, 12:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga	26 min
Sep 15, 12:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	59 min
Sep 15, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	28 min
Sep 15, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	51 min
Sep 15, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Washington	25 min
Sep 15, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	57 min
Sep 15, 1:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery	3 hr
Sep 15, 1:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	9 min
Sep 15, 1:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	16 min
Sep 15, 1:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady	3 hr
Sep 15, 1:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Washington	2 hr
Sep 15, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	44 min
Sep 15, 1:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Saratoga, Washington	3 hr
Sep 15, 1:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Washington	3 hr
Sep 15, 1:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie	3 hr
Sep 15, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schenectady	32 min
Sep 15, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	60 min
Sep 15, 2:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	26 min
Sep 15, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Schoharie	34 min
Sep 15, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Washington	62 min
Sep 15, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	25 min
Sep 15, 2:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington	3 hr
Sep 15, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	49 min
Sep 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Rensselaer	3 hr
Sep 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Albany	31 min
Sep 15, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Rensselaer	60 min
Sep 15, 3:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Washington	3 hr
Sep 15, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	26 min
Sep 15, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Rensselaer	31 min
Sep 15, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	27 min
Sep 15, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	66 min
Sep 15, 3:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	3 hr
Sep 15, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	25 min
Sep 15, 4:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	3 hr
Sep 15, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	26 min
Sep 15, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	59 min
Sep 15, 4:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer	3 hr
Sep 15, 4:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Greene, Ulster	3 hr
Sep 15, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	30 min
Sep 15, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	32 min
Sep 15, 5:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ALY	Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie and 2 more	3 hr
Sep 15, 5:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Ulster	2 hr
Sep 15, 5:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Ulster	3 hr
Sep 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	29 min
Sep 15, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Ulster	34 min
Sep 15, 5:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ALY	Columbia, Greene	97 min
Sep 15, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	35 min
Sep 15, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	37 min
Sep 15, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	43 min
Sep 15, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	46 min
Sep 15, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Windham	24 min
Sep 15, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	43 min
Sep 15, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	37 min
Sep 15, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		33 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.