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Freeze Warning 5, NWS New York, NY

October 20, 2008Suffolk County, New York; Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 20, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York; Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Oct 21, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 20, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 21, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 21, 2008, 4:04 AM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 20, 4:16 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 4:16 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 20, 3:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 19, 10:19 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	OKX	Westchester	11 hr
Oct 20, 5:24 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Richmond, Suffolk, Westchester	10 hr
Oct 20, 5:59 AM EDT	Gale Watch	OKX		34 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Connecticut, 2008 Freeze Warnings in New York, 2008 Every freeze warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.