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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS New York, NY

May 29, 2010Putnam County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2010, 5:16 PM EDT for Putnam County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 44 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
May 29, 2010, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2010, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Putnam County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2010-05-29Temperature 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2010-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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
May 29, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXPutnam64 min
May 29, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKX54 min
May 29, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKX56 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.