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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS New York, NY

July 28, 1995Rockland County, Westchester County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 8:32 PM EDT for Rockland County, Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2365 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, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange67 min
Jul 29, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region34 min
Jul 29, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.