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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS New York, NY

June 13, 1996Orange County, Putnam County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 1:49 PM EDT for Orange County, Putnam County, New York. It was in force for 56 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
Jun 13, 1996, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 173 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
Jun 13, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPutnam46 min
Jun 13, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange, Rockland67 min
Jun 13, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXWestchester68 min
Jun 13, 4:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXRockland, Westchester64 min
Jun 13, 5:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXWestchester61 min
Jun 13, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXWestchester61 min
Jun 13, 5:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region64 min
Jun 13, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region64 min
Jun 13, 6:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.