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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

June 22, 2011Westchester County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2011, 9:39 AM EDT for Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2011, 9:39 AM EDT (13:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2011, 10:30 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 22, 7:43 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:43 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 3:57 AM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:24 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 8:51 AM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 9:10 AM EDT, 29 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
910 AM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

NJZ002-103-NYZ067>070-221415-
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND-WESTERN BERGEN-WESTERN
PASSAIC-
910 AM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN BERGEN...PASSAIC...
PUTNAM...ROCKLAND...SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE AND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES...

AT 909 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RINGWOOD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE...
  NEAR SLOATSBURG BY 920 AM.
  NEAR MONSEY BY 930 AM.
  NEAR POMONA BY 935 AM.
  NEAR NEW CITY BY 940 AM.
  NEAR HAVERSTRAW BY 945 AM.
  NEAR PEEKSKILL BY 955 AM.

INTENSE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO 50
MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 1 INCH PER HOUR...IS OCCURRING WITH
THIS STORM. THIS COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS... AND
MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

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.

LAT...LON 4132 7408 4146 7372 4119 7358 4105 7434
      4112 7438

MPS

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 9:39 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
939 AM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

NYZ067-068-070-221430-
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-ORANGE-PUTNAM-
939 AM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EASTERN ORANGE...PUTNAM AND
WESTCHESTER COUNTIES...

AT 934 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COLD SPRING...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40
MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE...
  NEAR PEEKSKILL BY 945 AM.
  NEAR YORKTOWN HEIGHTS BY 955 AM.
  NEAR MOUNT KISCO BY 1005 AM.
  NEAR BEDFORD BY 1010 AM.

INTENSE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO 40
MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 1 INCH PER HOUR...IS OCCURRING
WITH THIS STORM. THIS COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS...
AND MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

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.

LAT...LON 4120 7351 4108 7377 4126 7397 4129 7395
      4132 7398 4130 7402 4140 7413 4148 7400
      4145 7399 4145 7398 4148 7394

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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
Jun 22, 8:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	66 min
Jun 22, 8:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	54 min
Jun 22, 9:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam, Rockland	65 min
Jun 22, 9:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Orange	94 min
Jun 22, 10:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	58 min
Jun 22, 10:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Westchester	62 min
Jun 22, 10:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	59 min
Jun 22, 2:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 4 more	54 hr
Jun 22, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Orange	116 min
Jun 22, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	67 min
Jun 22, 11:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		48 min

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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.