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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Dec 1, 2025, 12:31 PM EST for 9 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Dec 2, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 13 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
- Dec 1, 2025, 12:31 PM EST (17:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 2, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 2, 2025, 8:02 PM EST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 17 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 1, 6:18 AM EST, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 6:18 AM EST, 6 hours 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 12:31 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Montgomery and 4 more | 32 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.