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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2012, 3:01 PM EDT for Putnam County, New York. It was in force for 59 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, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
County Putnam County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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, 2:42 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:42 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 2:38 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 238 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 NYZ075-178-179-271845- KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 238 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 300 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 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. NYZ080-081-271845- SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 238 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 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. ANZ340-345-350-353-355-CTZ007-008-011-012-NYZ078-079-271845- 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-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 238 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 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. ANZ330-335-338-CTZ005-006-009-010-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>074- 176-177-271845- 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-NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-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)-NORTHERN QUEENS-NORTHERN NASSAU- 238 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 300 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 9:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 26, 2:33 PM EDT, 28 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
DSWSpecial weather statement, May 26, 3:01 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
301 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012
NYZ067-068-070-262000-
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-ORANGE-PUTNAM-
301 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EASTERN ORANGE...PUTNAM AND
WESTCHESTER COUNTIES...
AT 258 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW WINDSOR...OR NEAR WEST POINT...AND
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 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 4151 7399 4145 7399 4145 7397 4149 7394
4132 7356 4116 7378 4126 7397 4129 7394
4132 7398 4130 7403 4139 7420 4154 7406
DSWThe 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, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Rockland | 42 min |
| May 26, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 41 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 |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New York, 2012Every special weather statement 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.