1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Dec 8, 3:43 PM EST, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 343 PM EST WED DEC 8 2004 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE SHORT LIVED AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LOCATED IN THE MID PORTION OF THE US WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY ON FRIDAY...EVENTUALLY TRACKING TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. AS THE SYSTEM APPROACHES THE REGION...IT WILL BRING WARMER AIR KEEPING THE MAJORITY OF THE EVENT AS RAIN. && .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT)...HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD INTO THE REGION THE NEXT 24 HOURS. LATEST SAT PICTURE SHOWING CLOUDS ACROSS SOUTHERN TIER THINNING OUT. WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH SKY GRIDS OVERNIGHT WITH DRYING. THURSDAY LOOKS RELATIVELY QUIET WITH THE HIGH PRESSURE OVERHEAD. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY BY FRIDAY. MODEL CONSENSUS IS TO TRACK THE LOW TO THE WEST OF ALBANY AND KEEP WARM AIR IN TO KEEP MAJORITY OF PRECIPITATION AS RAIN. WILL INCLUDED MIXED PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY WARING AREA. MODEL SOUNDINGS ON BOTH GFS AND ETA INDICATING THAT THERE WILL BE ENOUGH WARM AIR IN PLACE THAT MOST OF THE CWA WILL BE IN LIQUID CONTENT. BY FRIDAY NIGHT...500MB TROUGH DEEPENS AND BECOMES MORE NEGATIVELY TILTED. GFS TREND IS MOVING THE LOW A BIT FURTHER EAST THAN THE ETA AND IS STRONGER WITH THE LOW. && .LONG TERM (SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... 00Z/06Z/12Z GFS RUNS...12Z ETA...LATEST CANADIAN GLOBAL GEM... UKMET... ECMWF...CAN/NCEP ENSEMBLES AND HPC GRAPHICS EXAMINED FOR THIS PORTION OF THE FCST. THE FRI-SAT WEATHER MAKER BY CONSENSUS OF THE MODELS AND THE ENSEMBLES TRACKS TO THE WEST OF THE CAPITAL REGION AND ALBANY...WHICH EQUATES TO A MOSTLY RAIN EVENT...ESPECIALLY BASED ON PARTIAL THICKNESS/MODEL SOUNDINGS. THE GFS IS SLIGHTLY FURTHER EAST WITH EACH RUN AND NOW STRENGTHENS THE LOW TO 986 HPA BY 18Z WITH A HINT OF SOME COLD AIR WRAPPING IN OVER CNTRL AND WRN NY WHICH COULD CHANGE THE -RA/-SHRA TO -SNSH/-SN OVER THE SRN ADIRONDACKS AND HIGHER TERRAIN WEST OF KALY. THE HPC GRAPHICS ARE SIMILAR TO THE GFS AND MOVE THE LOW RAPIDLY NORTHEAST TO NRN ME BY 12Z SUN. THE WRAP AROUND PCPN MAY LINGER OVER THE WRN PORTION OF THE CWA SAT NIGHT THIS IS ADDRESSED WITH CHANCE/SLGHT CHANCE POPS. SUNDAY...THE CANADIAN GEM/GFS AND ENSEMBLES ARE A LITTLE SLOWER THAN THE PREVIOUS RUNS WITH THE CLIPPER SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES ON SUNDAY. I HAVE KEPT IT DRY UNTIL AFTER 17Z WHERE I INTRODUCED CHANCE POPS WEST OF THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY FOR -SN/-SHSN. I KEPT IT DRY FOR THE ERN PORTION OF THE CWA ON SUNDAY. LIGHT SNOW FOR THE ENTIRE FCST AREA SUN NIGHT INTO EARLY MON...THEN ARCTIC AIR BEGINS TO SPILL IN OVER THE NORTHEAST FROM MONDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE CNTRL PLAINS DOMINATES THE WEATHER OVER THE LOWER 48 BY 12Z TUE. A SERIES OF H500 SHORT WAVES IN THE NW FLOW OVER THE NORTHEAST MAY TRIGGER A FEW -SHSN DOWNWIND OF LAKE ONTARIO ON TUE. THE GFS OPERATIONAL RUN WAS THE COLDEST ENSEMBLE MEMBER FOR MON NIGHT-WED WITH H850S OF ROUGHLY -12C TO -18C. I LEANED CLOSER TO THE ENSEMBLES MOS MEANS WHICH WERE A STANDARD DEVIATION GREATER THAN THE OPERATIONAL RUN...BUT STILL QUITE COLD. && .AVIATION...WIDESPREAD STRATOCUMULUS THIS AFTERNOON EXCEPT S AND SE OF KALB WHERE CLOUDS MAINLY SCATTERED. CEILINGS MAINLY VFR LOCAL MVFR. ISOLATED SPRINKLES WILL DIMINISH. STRATOCU WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING WITH VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH 00Z FRIDAY. MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE DURING THE 07Z-13Z TIME PERIOD. STRONG SURFACE WINDS WITH LOCAL GUSTS OVER 30 KT (OUT OF WEST AND NORTHWEST) THROUGH 23Z. WINDS BECOMING LIGHT AND VARIABLE BY 08Z. DETERIORATING CONDITIONS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. && .HYDROLOGY... NO PROBLEMS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24-36 HOURS. RIVERS...STREAMS...CREEKS AND RESERVOIRS WILL BEGIN TO RECEDE SOME OVERNIGHT AFTER ALL THE RUNOFF FROM THE SNOWMELT AND RAIN FROM YESTERDAY THROUGH THIS MORNING. THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM TO IMPACT THE FCST AREA WILL BE FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY. AT THIS POINT THE MAJORITY OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE RAINFALL WITH PERHAPS A LIGHT MIX TO START FOR THE WRN PORTION OF THE CWA. && .ALY WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CT...NONE. MA...NONE. NY...NONE. VT...NONE. && SHORT TERM...KOLECI LONG TERM/HYDRO...WASULA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 505 PM EST WED DEC 8 2004 CTZ001-013-MAZ001-025-NYZ032-033-038>043-047-049>054-058>061-063>066- 082>084-VTZ013>015-091200- BENNINGTON VT-EASTERN ALBANY NY-EASTERN COLUMBIA NY- EASTERN DUTCHESS NY-EASTERN GREENE NY-EASTERN RENSSELAER NY- EASTERN SCHENECTADY NY-EASTERN ULSTER NY-EASTERN WINDHAM VT- HAMILTON NY-MONTGOMERY NY-NORTHERN BERKSHIRE MA-NORTHERN FULTON NY- NORTHERN HERKIMER NY-NORTHERN LITCHFIELD CT-NORTHERN SARATOGA NY- NORTHERN WARREN NY-NORTHERN WASHINGTON NY-SCHOHARIE NY- SOUTHEAST WARREN NY-SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE MA-SOUTHERN FULTON NY- SOUTHERN HERKIMER NY-SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD CT-SOUTHERN SARATOGA NY- SOUTHERN WASHINGTON NY-WESTERN ALBANY NY-WESTERN COLUMBIA NY- WESTERN DUTCHESS NY-WESTERN GREENE NY-WESTERN RENSSELAER NY- WESTERN ULSTER NY-WESTERN WINDHAM VT- 500 PM EST WED DEC 8 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK TROOP F 0342PM WED DEC 08 2004 #1 0000001 000 FKIN WLSR APTS 03509 FILE 28 SP KINGSTON NY1550200 DEC 08-04 TO ALL ULSTER COUNTY AGENCIES *********** CANCEL MSG # 3508 ********** ST RT 28A FROM ST 28 IN THE T/ULSTER TO BEESMER RD IN THE T/HURLEY HAS BEEN RE-OPENED TO TRAFFIC. AUTH AND SENT TPR DAVID S SLOWIK 3-40PM OPER - SLOWIK,DAVID S 1542
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Locally destructive winds gusts partially damaged a roof and brought down a few power lines in the town of North Adams.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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