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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS New York, NY

July 25, 2010Westchester County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2010, 12:22 AM EDT for Westchester County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 38 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
Jul 25, 2010, 12:22 AM EDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 2010, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

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

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 00:00Z on 2010-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 650 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2010-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
650 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.9

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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 Jul 25, 12:01 AM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 12:01 AM EDT, 21 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 10:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 11:48 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 10:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXOrange, Putnam63 min
Jul 24, 11:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXPutnam, Rockland, Westchester57 min
Jul 25, 12:27 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX44 min
Jul 25, 12:41 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX64 min
Jul 25, 1:24 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXNassau66 min
Jul 25, 1:25 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX24 min
Jul 25, 1:36 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX54 min
Jul 25, 1:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXOrange62 min
Jul 25, 2:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXBronx, New York, Richmond, Rockland55 min
Jul 25, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXWestchester49 min
Jul 25, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBronx, New York, Rockland, Westchester34 min
Jul 25, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX38 min
Jul 25, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBronx, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk44 min
Jul 25, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSuffolk42 min
Jul 25, 3:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX45 min
Jul 25, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX39 min
Jul 25, 3:40 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXSuffolk35 min
Jul 25, 3:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXSuffolk49 min
Jul 25, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX43 min
Jul 25, 4:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX23 min
Jul 25, 12:56 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKX64 min
Jul 25, 1:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region13 min
Jul 25, 2:08 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKX37 min
Jul 25, 2:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXBergen, Passaic58 min
Jul 25, 2:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXBergen, Essex, Passaic57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2010Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.