Alert archive / New York / Winter Storm Watches in 2011
Winter Storm Watch 6, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this winter storm watch at Mar 30, 2011, 4:31 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York; 4 counties in New Jersey; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 1, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2011, 4:31 AM EDT (08:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2011, 5:53 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 30, 2:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:42 PM EDT | Gale Watch | OKX | 13 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2011Winter Storm Watches in New Jersey, 2011Winter Storm Watches in Connecticut, 2011Every winter storm watch 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.