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Heat Advisory 2, NWS New York, NY

June 7, 20088 counties in New York; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this heat advisory at Jun 7, 2008, 3:16 PM EDT for 8 counties in New York; Hudson County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Jun 8, 2008, 4:51 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2008, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 8, 2008, 4:51 AM EDT
Expired: Jun 8, 2008, 6:42 PM EDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 7, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 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
Jun 7, 5:18 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Kings, Suffolk	13 hr
Jun 7, 6:05 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Putnam, Westchester	3 hr
Jun 7, 12:47 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Orange, Richmond, Rockland	5 hr

Nearby

Heat Advisories in New York, 2008 Heat Advisories in New Jersey, 2008 Every heat 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.