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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Albany, NY

March 22, 202411 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Mar 22, 2024, 4:28 AM EDT for 11 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Mar 22, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 26 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
Mar 22, 2024, 4:28 AM EDT (08:28 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 22, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired
Mar 23, 2024, 9:54 PM EDT
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Albany County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 00:00Z on 2024-03-22Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2024-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 Mar 22, 1:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 1:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 4:28 AM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryALYAlbany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery and 7 more41 hr
Mar 22, 4:30 AM EDTFlood WatchALYDutchess41 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2024Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2024Every winter storm warning in 2024

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.