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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

May 29, 2012Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2012, 6:04 PM EDT for Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 86 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 29, 2012, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 1578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 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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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 8:21 PM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	OKX		14 hr
May 29, 7:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Orange	2 hr
May 29, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	67 min
May 29, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	53 min
May 29, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Putnam, Queens, Richmond and 2 more	50 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2012 Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2012 Every 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.