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High Surf Advisory 6, NWS New York, NY

October 29, 20114 counties in New York

NWS New York, NY issued this high surf advisory at Oct 29, 2011, 4:00 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Oct 29, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 29, 2011, 4:00 AM EDT (08:00 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 29, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 30, 2011, 3:39 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY, Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 56 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf 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 high surf advisory went out at Oct 29, 2:10 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 2:10 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 4:00 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	20 hr
Oct 29, 4:18 AM EDT	Storm Warning	OKX		21 hr
Oct 29, 4:32 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	21 hr
Oct 29, 4:32 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Westchester	10 hr
Oct 29, 2:21 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	14 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in New York, 2011 Every high surf 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.