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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY

December 9, 2025Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont

NWS Albany, NY issued this winter storm warning at Dec 9, 2025, 1:34 PM EST for Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer County, New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont. It took effect at Dec 10, 2025, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 27 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 9, 2025, 1:34 PM EST (18:34 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 10, 2025, 4:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 11, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
In force
27 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY

Counties Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 2025-12-09Temperature 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 2025-12-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
182 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 Dec 9, 12:42 PM EST, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 12:42 PM EST, 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 9, 1:34 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryALYAlbany, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery, Saratoga and 5 more35 hr
Dec 9, 6:12 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementALYMontgomery63 min

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.