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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

May 26, 2012Rockland County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2012, 2:33 PM EDT for Rockland County, New York. It was in force for 42 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: May 26, 2012, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Rockland County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 26, 1:54 PM EDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:54 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 9:02 AM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 9:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 1:58 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 2:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
233 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012

NJZ104-NYZ069>071-261915-
EASTERN BERGEN-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-ROCKLAND-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-
233 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EASTERN BERGEN...ROCKLAND AND
WESTCHESTER COUNTIES...

AT 228 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NANUET...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 AN 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 4122 7402 4112 7369 4110 7372 4102 7366
      4090 7377 4104 7407 4107 7406 4109 7411

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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
May 26, 12:45 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	8 hr
May 26, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	32 min
May 26, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange, Putnam	41 min
May 26, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	41 min
May 26, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	59 min
May 26, 3:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	82 min
May 26, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Westchester	57 min
May 26, 3:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	95 min
May 26, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	47 min
May 26, 4:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	83 min
May 26, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		41 min
May 26, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	39 min
May 26, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		58 min
May 26, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		57 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.