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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS New York, NY

July 28, 1995Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 2:53 AM EDT for Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 2:53 AM EDT (06:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1236 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPutnam, Westchester49 min
Jul 28, 1:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXKings, Queens2 hr
Jul 28, 1:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXRichmond2 hr
Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXNassau, Queens67 min
Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXKings67 min
Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXRichmond67 min
Jul 28, 2:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRichmond67 min
Jul 28, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange, Rockland65 min
Jul 28, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPutnam55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.