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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS New York, NY

June 2, 2000Kings County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 7:42 PM EDT for Kings County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 2, 2000, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Brooklyn, NY
Jun 2, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Queens Vlg, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KOKX 022343
SVRNYC
NYC047-061-081-085-030045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
742 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

  IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE...
     QUEENS...
     KINGS (BROOKLYN)...
     RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)...
     NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT...

* AT 742 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF RIDGEFIELD TO AVENEL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* BASED ON THIS MOVEMENT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE IN
  THE VICINITY OF...
  ASTORIA...BATTERY PARK...LONG ISLAND CITY...TODT HILL AROUND 750 PM
  EDT...
  HUGUENOT...JACKSON HEOGHTS...LAGUARDIA AIRPORT...TOMPKINSVILLE
  AROUND 755 PM EDT...
  BAY RIDGE...CROWN HEIGHTS AROUND 800 PM EDT...

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

$$

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFF|ICE IN UPTON NY.

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.

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 2:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
240 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

SEVERE WX EXPTD ACRS PORTIONS OF FA LT THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVENING
AS SQLN APPROACHES. PRIMARY THREAT STILL APPEARS WL BE DAMAGING
WND GUSTS ALTHO TORRENTIAL RAINS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLG
SEEMS LKLY.

OTRW...BASICALLY STILL LOOKG FOR UNCOMFORTABLE HEAT AND HUMIDITY TO
GIVE WAY TO CONSIDERABLY COOLER AND DRIER WX THIS WEEKEND.

A SPECIAL 18Z SOUNDG IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING TAKEN.

MARINE...WNDS SHLD RCH SCA CRIT BY A BIT LTR THIS EVENING AS GRAD
TIGHTENS SO SCA WL CONT.

WRKZFP NOT AVBL ATTM. SVR TSTM WATCH MAY NOT BE ISSUED UNTIL AROUND
4 PM EDT FOR MY FA...THIS AFT COORD WITH SPC. FEEL IT BEST TO HOLD
ZONE ISSUANCE UNTIL THAT TIME UNLESS SOMETHING ELSE COMES UP.

.OKX...NONE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	65 min
Jun 2, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Rockland	40 min
Jun 2, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Putnam, Westchester	56 min
Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx	52 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	New York	63 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Richmond	63 min
Jun 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.