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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albany, NY

August 4, 2024Bennington County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2024, 8:06 AM EDT for Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 39 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: Aug 4, 2024, 8:06 AM EDT (12:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2024, 8:45 AM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Bennington County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 707 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Aug 4, 6:59 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 6:59 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 4:28 AM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 8:06 AM 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
Aug 4, 8:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Washington	114 min
Aug 4, 11:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Columbia	46 min
Aug 4, 11:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Columbia	114 min
Aug 4, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	45 min
Aug 4, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	43 min
Aug 4, 2:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	2 hr
Aug 4, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	50 min
Aug 4, 2:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Dutchess, Ulster	110 min
Aug 4, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Dutchess	37 min
Aug 4, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Warren	34 min
Aug 4, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Warren, Washington	40 min
Aug 4, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Washington	33 min
Aug 4, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Greene	45 min
Aug 4, 6:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Washington	104 min
Aug 4, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		28 min
Aug 4, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		38 min
Aug 4, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	48 min
Aug 4, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY		14 min
Aug 4, 4:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	2 hr
Aug 4, 11:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	48 min
Aug 4, 11:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ALY	Berkshire	46 min
Aug 4, 12:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ALY	Berkshire	118 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.