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Snow Squall Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this snow squall warning at Jan 11, 2026, 3:01 PM EST for 5 counties in New York. It was in force for 44 min. 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 11, 2026, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2026, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Albany County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 103 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -314 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Jan 11, 1:17 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 1:17 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 12:31 AM EST | Wind Advisory | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Montgomery and 4 more | 32 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Jan 11, 3:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Schoharie | 45 min |
| Jan 11, 3:36 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | ALY | Albany, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie and 1 more | 39 min |
| Jan 11, 4:10 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady | 50 min |
| Jan 11, 4:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Rensselaer | 63 min |
| Jan 11, 4:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Columbia | 44 min |
| Jan 11, 5:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Putnam | 48 min |
| Jan 11, 5:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ALY | Berkshire | 43 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.