Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1997, 2:17 PM EDT for Kings County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 28 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 6, 1997, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1997, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 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 18:18 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
160 WUUS1 KNYC 061818 RRA SVRNYC NYC005-047-061-081-061845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 217 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...BRONX COUNTY...KINGS COUNTY...NEW YORK COUNTY ...QUEENS COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NEW YORK CITY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 59 min |
| May 6, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 63 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | New York | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 67 min |
| May 6, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 57 min |
| May 6, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 28 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.