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Heat Advisory 8, NWS New York, NY

August 7, 20115 counties in New York

NWS New York, NY issued this heat advisory at Aug 7, 2011, 3:28 PM EDT for 5 counties in New York. It took effect at Aug 8, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2011, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 8, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired
Aug 8, 2011, 10:21 AM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS New York, NY

Counties Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 2011-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 496 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 12:00Z on 2011-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 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
496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Aug 7, 1:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 1:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 2:11 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXOrange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester3 hr
Aug 7, 6:49 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXNassau86 min
Aug 7, 10:28 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXSuffolk2 hr
Aug 7, 3:34 PM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasOKX10 hr
Aug 7, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXOrange60 min
Aug 7, 6:37 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXOrange2 hr
Aug 7, 7:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXRockland, Westchester66 min
Aug 7, 6:24 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region3 hr
Aug 7, 10:26 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region2 hr

Nearby

Heat Advisories in New York, 2011Every heat advisory in 2011

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.