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Freeze Watch 6, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this freeze watch at Apr 29, 2012, 3:47 AM EDT for 5 counties in New York; 4 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 30, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2012, 3:47 AM EDT (07:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 30, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2012, 12:40 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 2953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze watch went out at Apr 29, 1:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 1:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 12:40 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | OKX | Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester | 19 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in New York, 2012Freeze Watches in New Jersey, 2012Freeze Watches in Connecticut, 2012Every freeze watch in 2012
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.