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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY

January 18, 20255 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 18, 2025, 3:13 PM EST for 5 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jan 19, 2025, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 16 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 18, 2025, 3:13 PM EST (20:13 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 19, 2025, 1:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 20, 2025, 5:05 AM EST
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Berkshire County, MA, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 39 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 2025-01-18Temperature 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 2025-01-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 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
1380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 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 18, 3:13 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryALYAlbany, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie and 1 more38 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in Vermont, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2025Every winter storm warning in 2025

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.