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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY

February 27, 202311 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Feb 27, 2023, 3:32 AM EST for 11 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Feb 27, 2023, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 20 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
Feb 27, 2023, 3:32 AM EST (08:32 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 27, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 28, 2023, 3:10 PM EST
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Albany County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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 00:00Z on 2023-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2023-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 437 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
111 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
437 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
568 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 Feb 27, 12:25 AM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 12:25 AM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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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.