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Frost Advisory 6, NWS New York, NY

October 10, 2009Orange County, Putnam County, New York; 4 counties in Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this frost advisory at Oct 10, 2009, 4:22 AM EDT for Orange County, Putnam County, New York; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Oct 11, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 10, 2009, 4:22 AM EDT (08:22 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 11, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 11, 2009, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
7 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, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 2009-10-10Temperature 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 2009-10-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 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
Oct 10, 3:22 PM EDTFreeze WatchOKXOrange, Putnam24 hr

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.