Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1999, 10:58 AM EDT for Bronx County, New York County, New York. It was in force for 62 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 24, 1999, 10:58 AM EDT (14:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1999, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bronx County, NY, New York County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 24, 9:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 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, May 24, 5:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-241600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 515 AM EDT MON MAY 24 1999 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING FOR LONG ISLAND...COASTAL CONNECTICUT...AND SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY...NY... ...POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL RESULT IN REDUCED DRIVING VISIBILITIES THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE BY 9 AM OR SO. A COLD FRONT IN THE OHIO VALLEY WILL APPROACH THE LOCAL AREA TODAY... BRINGING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE LOCAL AREA BY MIDDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE MOST LIKELY PERIOD FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM AROUND NOON UNTIL THE LATE AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST LATER TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH OFFSHORE THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN FAIR WEATHER ON TUESDAY. KEEP ABREAST OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA OUTLETS. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION MAY ALSO BE OBTAINED FROM OUR HOMEPAGE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWS.BNL.GOV EKH
Special weather statement, May 24, 5:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-241600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 515 AM EDT MON MAY 24 1999 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING FOR LONG ISLAND...COASTAL CONNECTICUT...AND SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY...NY... ...POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL RESULT IN REDUCED DRIVING VISIBILITIES THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE BY 9 AM OR SO. A COLD FRONT IN THE OHIO VALLEY WILL APPROACH THE LOCAL AREA TODAY... BRINGING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE LOCAL AREA BY MIDDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE MOST LIKELY PERIOD FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM AROUND NOON UNTIL THE LATE AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST LATER TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH OFFSHORE THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN FAIR WEATHER ON TUESDAY. KEEP ABREAST OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA OUTLETS. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION MAY ALSO BE OBTAINED FROM OUR HOMEPAGE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWS.BNL.GOV EKH
Special weather statement, May 24, 9:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-241900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 915 AM EDT MON MAY 24 1999 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND FAIRFIELD AND NEW HAVEN COUNTIES OF CONNECTICUT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FAST APPROACHING THE AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE MOST LIKELY PERIOD FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM LATE THIS MORNING UNTIL ABOUT MID AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST LATER TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH OFFSHORE THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN FAIR WEATHER ON TUESDAY. KEEP ABREAST OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA OUTLETS. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION MAY ALSO BE OBTAINED FROM OUR HOMEPAGE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWS.BNL.GOV WICHROWSKI
Special weather statement, May 24, 9:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-241900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 915 AM EDT MON MAY 24 1999 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND FAIRFIELD AND NEW HAVEN COUNTIES OF CONNECTICUT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FAST APPROACHING THE AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THE MOST LIKELY PERIOD FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM LATE THIS MORNING UNTIL ABOUT MID AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST LATER TODAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH OFFSHORE THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN FAIR WEATHER ON TUESDAY. KEEP ABREAST OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR MEDIA OUTLETS. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION MAY ALSO BE OBTAINED FROM OUR HOMEPAGE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.NWS.BNL.GOV WICHROWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 61 min |
| May 24, 10:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 62 min |
| May 24, 10:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 62 min |
| May 24, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Hudson, Union | 61 min |
| May 24, 4:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 2 hr |
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.