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Frost Advisory 2, NWS New York, NY

April 30, 2008Suffolk County, Westchester County, New York; 4 counties in Connecticut; Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this frost advisory at Apr 30, 2008, 4:30 AM EDT for Suffolk County, Westchester County, New York; 4 counties in Connecticut; Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at May 1, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 2008, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
In effect from
May 1, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 1, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT
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, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 2008-04-30Temperature 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 2008-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 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
1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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
Apr 30, 4:30 AM EDTFreeze WatchOKXOrange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester11 hr
Apr 30, 3:15 PM EDTFreeze WarningOKXOrange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester17 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Connecticut, 2008Frost Advisories in New York, 2008Frost Advisories in New Jersey, 2008Every frost advisory 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.