Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS New York, NY

August 5, 1999Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1999, 4:08 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 62 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
Aug 5, 1999, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1999, 5:10 PM EDT
In force
62 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 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 5, 4:16 PM EDTHail 0.75Farmingville, 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 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
Aug 5, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSuffolk49 min
Aug 5, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXKings35 min
Aug 5, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRichmond35 min
Aug 5, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNassau, Suffolk48 min
Aug 5, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXKings, Queens49 min
Aug 5, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXHudson35 min
Aug 5, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region51 min
Aug 5, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSoutheastern Connecticut Planning Region49 min
Aug 5, 5:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXSoutheastern Connecticut Planning Region2 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.