Alert archive / New York / Red Flag Warnings in 2023
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this red flag warning at Apr 7, 2023, 3:26 AM EDT for 9 counties in New York; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 7, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Apr 7, 2023, 3:26 AM EDT (07:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 7, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:28 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 8:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer | 12 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in New York, 2023Red Flag Warnings in Connecticut, 2023Every red flag warning in 2023
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.