Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2007, 6:50 AM EDT for Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2007, 6:50 AM EDT (10:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 7:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KOKX 081050 TOROKX NYC047-059-081-081115- /O.NEW.KOKX.TO.W.0004.070808T1050Z-070808T1115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 650 AM EDT WED AUG 8 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN QUEENS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... SOUTHWESTERN NASSAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... EASTERN KINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... * UNTIL 715 AM EDT... * AT 644 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CANARSIE... OR ABOUT NEAR CROWN HEIGHTS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... JAMAICA BY 700 AM... KENNEDY AIRPORT BY 705 AM... CEDARHURST BY 710 AM... WOODMERE...VALLEY STREAM...LYNBROOK AND ATLANTIC BEACH BY 715 AM. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. LAT...LON 4071 7391 4062 7394 4056 7361 4070 7358 $$ GOODMAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS51 KOKX 081103 SVSOKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 703 AM EDT WED AUG 8 2007 NYC047-081113- /O.CAN.KOKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070808T1115Z/ KINGS NY- 703 AM EDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR KINGS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 4062 7385 4060 7384 4062 7368 4069 7370 $$ NYC059-081-081115- /O.CON.KOKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070808T1115Z/ NASSAU NY-QUEENS NY- 703 AM EDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 AM EDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN QUEENS AND SOUTHWESTERN NASSAU COUNTIES... AT 659 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF KENNEDY AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KENNEDY AIRPORT...INWOOD AND CEDARHURST BY 710 AM... VALLEY STREAM...WOODMERE AND HEWLETT BY 715 AM... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. LAT...LON 4062 7385 4060 7384 4062 7368 4069 7370 $$ GOODMAN
000 WWUS51 KOKX 081121 SVSOKX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 720 AM EDT WED AUG 8 2007 NYC059-081-081130- /O.EXP.KOKX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070808T1115Z/ NASSAU NY-QUEENS NY- 720 AM EDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN QUEENS AND SOUTHWESTERN NASSAU COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 715 AM EDT... THE STORM HAS MOVED INTO NASSAU COUNTY AND DOES NOT APPEAR CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...IT MAY STILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. LAT...LON 4062 7385 4060 7384 4062 7368 4069 7370 $$ GOODMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:56 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Richmond | 14 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Kings, Richmond | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 6:30 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 30 min | |
| Aug 8, 7:32 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 43 min | |
| Aug 8, 8:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 65 min | |
| Aug 8, 9:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 33 min | |
| Aug 8, 9:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 82 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.