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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS New York, NY

April 23, 1996Bronx County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1996, 8:44 PM EDT for Bronx County, New York. It was in force for 46 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
Apr 23, 1996, 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Bronx County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1996-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 270 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Apr 23, 8:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange52 min
Apr 23, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXKings, Queens46 min
Apr 23, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNew York46 min
Apr 23, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRichmond46 min
Apr 23, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland, Westchester53 min
Apr 23, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXUnion46 min
Apr 23, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPassaic46 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.