Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2008, 2:45 PM EDT for Orange County, Rockland County, New York. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 14, 2008, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2008, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Orange County, NY, Rockland County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 2:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 5:55 AM EDT, 8 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 555 AM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-151000- NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC-BERGEN- EASTERN PASSAIC-ESSEX-HUDSON-UNION-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND- NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX- RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-QUEENS-NASSAU- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 555 AM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WIDESPREAD SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. HIGH SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT WILL CAUSE INCREASED RUNOFF RATES POTENTIALLY CAUSING LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THAT WOULD MEET NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING CRITERIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA. ANZ330-335-338-340-345-350-353-355-151000- LONG ISLAND SOUND EAST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- NEW YORK HARBOR-PECONIC AND GARDINERS BAYS- SOUTH SHORE BAYS FROM JONES INLET THROUGH SHINNECOCK BAY- MORICHES INLET NY TO MONTAUK POINT NY OUT 20 NM- FIRE ISLAND INLET NY TO MORICHES INLET NY OUT 20 NM- SANDY HOOK NJ TO FIRE ISLAND INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 555 AM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THAT WOULD MEET NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING CRITERIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange, Putnam | 86 min |
| Aug 14, 6:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Putnam | 89 min |
| Aug 14, 1:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 111 min |
| Aug 14, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 3:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Nassau | 54 min |
| Aug 14, 3:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens | 65 min |
| Aug 14, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Richmond, Westchester | 28 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 52 min | |
| Aug 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 42 min |
| Aug 14, 4:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 114 min |
| Aug 14, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 51 min | |
| Aug 14, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 4:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | New York | 91 min |
| Aug 14, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 65 min | |
| Aug 14, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 58 min | |
| Aug 14, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 62 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens | 84 min |
| Aug 14, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 64 min | |
| Aug 14, 4:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 92 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.