Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 6:55 PM EDT for New York County, New York. It was in force for 35 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 18, 2000, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County New York County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KOKX 182256
SVRNYC
NJC013-017-039-NYC047-061-085-182330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
655 PM EDT THU MAY 18 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY...
ESSEX...
UNION...
HUDSON...
IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE...
KINGS (BROOKLYN)...
RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)...
NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)...
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT...
* AT 655 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF MIDTOWN MANHATTAN TO WEST ORANGE TO
6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BERKELEY HEIGHTS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE IN
THE VICINITY OF...
BAYONNE...CLARK...BATTERY PARK AROUND 700 PM EDT...
LINDEN...RAHWAY AROUND 705 PM EDT...
VERRAZANO-NARROWS BRIDGE AROUND 710 PM EDT...
CONEY ISLAND AROUND 715 PM EDT...
WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.
$$
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECA'ST
OFFICE IN UPTON NY.
JSTThe office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 36 min |
| May 18, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 44 min |
| May 18, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland | 44 min |
| May 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 32 min |
| May 18, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 65 min |
| May 18, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 29 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 24 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Queens | 24 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx | 24 min |
| May 18, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 35 min |
| May 18, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings | 35 min |
| May 18, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 54 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.