Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2009, 3:06 PM EDT for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 54 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
- Jun 26, 2009, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2009, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Orange County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 Jun 26, 2:46 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:46 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 2:47 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 247 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009 ANZ330-335-338-340-345-350-353-355-CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011- NYZ067>081-271345- 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-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- 247 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 517 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. && 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 10:00 AM EDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1000 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009 NYZ078>081-261500- NORTHEAST SUFFOLK-NORTHWEST SUFFOLK-SOUTHEAST SUFFOLK-SOUTHWEST SUFFOLK- 1000 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SUFFOLK COUNTY... AT 957 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BRENTWOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. THIS COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES...SO USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN DRIVING. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. PW
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:41 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 241 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009 CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-270200- 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- 241 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM FOR THE ENTIRE REGION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE TRI- STATE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE BEST CHANCE OF STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE AFTER 400 PM ACROSS THE IMMEDIATE NEW YORK CITY METRO AREA. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AS A RESULT...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED THE ENTIRE REGION IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. TRAVELERS TODAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE EVENING RUSH HOUR SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY IN HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES. STREETS AND HIGHWAYS MAY BECOME FLOODED IN THE HEAVIEST RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange, Putnam | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange | 95 min |
| Jun 26, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Westchester | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 35 min | |
| Jun 26, 5:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Rockland and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 52 min |
| Jun 26, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 66 min | |
| Jun 26, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 6:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond | 118 min |
| Jun 26, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 52 min | |
| Jun 26, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 6:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Nassau, Suffolk | 116 min |
| Jun 26, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 1 more | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 55 min | |
| Jun 26, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 113 min | |
| Jun 26, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 39 min | |
| Jun 26, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 23 min | |
| Jun 26, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 24 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.