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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS New York, NY

May 11, 1996Kings County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1996, 5:29 PM EDT for Kings County, Queens 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
May 11, 1996, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 11, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange55 min
May 11, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland46 min
May 11, 5:19 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXOrange26 min
May 11, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPutnam, Westchester51 min
May 11, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBronx, New York46 min
May 11, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRichmond46 min
May 11, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPutnam, Westchester20 min
May 11, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNassau47 min
May 11, 6:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXOrange, Westchester3 hr
May 11, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSuffolk40 min
May 11, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPassaic35 min
May 11, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBergen, Essex, Passaic, Union46 min
May 11, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region62 min
May 11, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.