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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2011, 7:33 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 18, 2011, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
County Dutchess County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Aug 18, 7:05 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 7:05 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 412 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2011 CTZ005>012-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>075-078>081-176>179-191000- NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC- EASTERN PASSAIC-HUDSON-WESTERN BERGEN-EASTERN BERGEN-WESTERN ESSEX- EASTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-EASTERN UNION-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND- NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX- RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHERN QUEENS-NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 412 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ANY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP TONIGHT WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF LOCAL HEAVY RAINFALL. ANY FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL BE LOCALIZED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WILL BE RATHER SLOW MOVING AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA. ANZ330-335-338-340-345-350-353-355-191000- LONG ISLAND SOUND EAST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- NEW YORK HARBOR-PECONIC AND GARDINERS BAYS- SOUTH SHORE BAYS FROM JONES INLET THROUGH SHINNECOCK BAY- MORICHES INLET NY TO MONTAUK POINT NY OUT 20 NM- FIRE ISLAND INLET NY TO MORICHES INLET NY OUT 20 NM- SANDY HOOK NJ TO FIRE ISLAND INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 412 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THAT WOULD MEET NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING CRITERIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA.
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
733 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2011
CTZ005-190000-
NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-
733 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY...
AT 729 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GAYLORDSVILLE...OR NEAR SHERMAN...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
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
AN 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 4165 7349 4164 7349 4153 7344 4152 7344
4156 7354 4166 7352 4167 7352 4167 7350
JMThe office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Bronx, New York | 42 min |
| Aug 18, 10:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Putnam | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 10:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Dutchess | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Orange | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | New York, Richmond | 53 min |
| Aug 18, 6:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond | 59 min |
| Aug 18, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Dutchess | 22 min |
| Aug 18, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, New York, Richmond | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 25 min | |
| Aug 18, 7:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond | 83 min |
| Aug 18, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Nassau, New York, Queens, Westchester | 17 min |
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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.