Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 11:56 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 8, 1996, 11:56 PM EDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1996, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 12:15 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Sayville, 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 9:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-202000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 915 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1996 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. DJR/JST
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 10:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Rockland | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 69 min |
| Jul 9, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region | 54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.