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Coastal Flood Statement 14, NWS New York, NY

September 19, 2008Kings County, Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 19, 2008, 1:54 PM EDT for Kings County, Suffolk County, New York. It took effect at Sep 19, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 19, 2008, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 19, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired
Sep 19, 2008, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY

Counties Kings County, NY, Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 12:00Z on 2008-09-19Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2008-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 11:20 AM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryOKXKings3 hr
Sep 19, 5:42 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementOKXKings, Suffolk49 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New York, 2008Every coastal flood statement in 2008

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.