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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY

January 27, 2024Albany County, Greene County, New York; Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 27, 2024, 3:10 PM EST for Albany County, Greene County, New York; Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Jan 28, 2024, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 24 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
Jan 27, 2024, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 28, 2024, 6:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 29, 2024, 5:59 AM EST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Greene County, NY, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 20 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2024-01-27Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2024-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 9:48 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer, Saratoga8 hr
Jan 27, 3:10 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryALYColumbia, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schoharie, Ulster39 hr

Nearby

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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.