Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1996, 2:23 PM EDT for Putnam County, Rockland County, Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 52 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1996, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Yorktown, NY | |
| May 21, 2:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, NY | |
| May 21, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Carmel, NY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 54 min |
| May 21, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 61 min |
| May 21, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 50 min |
| May 21, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 42 min |
| May 21, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region | 49 min |
| May 21, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 53 min |
| May 21, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 61 min |
| May 21, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.