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Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS New York, NY

January 4, 20064 counties in New York; 4 counties in Connecticut; Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this freezing rain advisory at Jan 4, 2006, 9:31 PM EST for 4 counties in New York; 4 counties in Connecticut; Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Jan 5, 2006, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 4, 2006, 9:31 PM EST (02:31 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 5, 2006, 1:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 5, 2006, 9:00 AM EST
In force
8 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, Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1312 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in New York, 2006Freezing Rain Advisories in Connecticut, 2006Freezing Rain Advisories in New Jersey, 2006Every freezing rain advisory in 2006

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.