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Snow Squall Warning 3, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this snow squall warning at Jan 11, 2026, 4:10 PM EST for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 50 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, 4:10 PM EST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2026, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Albany County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 1:17 PM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jan 11, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jan 11, 3:14 PM EST, 56 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albany NY
314 PM EST Sun Jan 11 2026
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0310 PM Snow Squall 4 ESE Canajoharie 42.87N 74.51W
01/11/2026 Montgomery NY Mesonet
Estimated one quarter mile visibility based
on webcam and measured 30 mph wind gust at
Sprakers NYS Mesonet site.
&&Special weather statement, Jan 11, 3:15 PM EST, 55 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
315 PM EST Sun Jan 11 2026
NYZ040-047-048-051-112100-
Schoharie NY-Western Schenectady NY-Montgomery NY-Western Albany NY-
315 PM EST Sun Jan 11 2026
...A SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT PARTS OF SCHOHARIE...WESTERN
SCHENECTADY...MONTGOMERY...AND WESTERN ALBANY COUNTIES...
HAZARDS...A snow squall accompanied by winds of 30 MPH which can
rapidly reduce visibility to less than one mile.
LOCATION AND MOVEMENT...At 315 PM EST, a snow squall was near Sharon
Springs, or near Cobleskill moving east at 30 MPH.
THIS SNOW SQUALL WILL BE NEAR...
Cobleskill around 320 PM EST.
Central Bridge around 330 PM EST.
Schoharie around 335 PM EST.
Delanson around 350 PM EST.
This includes Interstate 88 between exits 20 and 23.
SAFETY INFO...
Use extra caution if you must travel into or through this snow
squall. Rapid changes in visibility and potentially slick roads may
lead to accidents.
&&
LAT...LON 4262 7463 4265 7463 4274 7466 4285 7459
4270 7403 4264 7403 4244 7434 4257 7467
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 283DEG 26KT 4276 7457
MEMLocal storm report, Jan 11, 3:56 PM EST, 14 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albany NY
356 PM EST Sun Jan 11 2026
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0340 PM Snow Squall 3 SW Mariaville 42.80N 74.17W
01/11/2026 Schenectady NY Mesonet
NYS Mesonet at Duanesburg webcam showed
visibilities reduced to less than one
quarter of a mile with a peak wind gust of
28 mph.
&&
33The office that day
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, 3:01 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | ALY | Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady | 44 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, 4:42 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 |
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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.