Alert archive / New York / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 5, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2011, 4:03 AM EST for Suffolk County, New York. It took effect at Feb 28, 2011, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2011, 4:03 AM EST (09:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2011, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2011, 4:09 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
County Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
525 WWUS71 KOKX 280903 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 403 AM EST MON FEB 28 2011 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM AROUND MIDDAY INTO EARLY EVENING... NYZ079-081-282215- /O.NEW.KOKX.WI.Y.0005.110228T1600Z-110301T0000Z/ NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 403 AM EST MON FEB 28 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...EASTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY. * HAZARDS...STRONG...GUSTY WINDS. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...THE STRONGEST WIND GUSTS WILL BE DURING MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS CAN BRING DOWN LARGE TREE LIMBS...AND POSSIBLY POWER LINES. WHEN COMBINED WITH THE HEAVY RAIN...A FEW TREES ALSO MAY BE BROUGHT DOWN. USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING...ESPECIALLY OVER BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH... OR GUSTS OF 46 TO 57 MPH...ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ MALOIT
1 follow-up statement
713 WWUS71 KOKX 282109 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 409 PM EST MON FEB 28 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELLED... .GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. NYZ079-081-282215- /O.CAN.KOKX.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-110301T0000Z/ NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 409 PM EST MON FEB 28 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL BE GUSTY INTO THIS EVENING...GUSTS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW THE ADVISORY CRITERIA THRESHOLD. GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THIS EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 9:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 33 min |
| Feb 28, 10:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Suffolk | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 12:02 PM EST | River Flood Warning | OKX | Orange, Ulster | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 6:18 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 6 hr |
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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.