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Extreme Cold Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this extreme cold warning at Feb 6, 2026, 12:55 AM EST for 14 counties in New York; Bennington County, Windham County, Vermont; Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 7, 2026, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 30 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
- Feb 6, 2026, 12:55 AM EST (05:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2026, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2026, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 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 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 1458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this extreme cold 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 extreme cold warning went out at Feb 6, 12:27 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 12:27 AM EST, 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 12:42 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 36 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:55 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton and 9 more | 3 days |
Nearby
Extreme Cold Warnings in New York, 2026Extreme Cold Warnings in Vermont, 2026Extreme Cold Warnings in Massachusetts, 2026Every extreme cold warning in 2026
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.