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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this winter storm watch at Dec 7, 2005, 3:21 PM EST for 9 counties in New York; 4 counties in Connecticut; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Dec 9, 2005, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 7, 2005, 3:21 PM EST (20:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 9, 2005, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2005, 3:01 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1099 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 7, 10:00 AM EST, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 10:00 AM EST, 5 hours 21 minutes before
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Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2005Winter Storm Watches in Connecticut, 2005Winter Storm Watches in New Jersey, 2005Every winter storm watch in 2005
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.