Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS New York, NY

July 19, 1999Orange County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1999, 1:43 PM EDT for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 52 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
Jul 19, 1999, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1999, 2:35 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 1999-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 284 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 1999-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
284 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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
Jul 19, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNassau, Suffolk49 min
Jul 19, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.