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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

June 6, 2012

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2012, 4:28 PM EDT. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 6, 2012, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 Jun 6, 3:53 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:53 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 3:58 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
325 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2012

CTZ008-062015-
NORTHERN NEW LONDON-
325 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN NEW LONDON COUNTY...

AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PLAINFIELD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IN
ADDITION...VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 1 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 4160 7179 4146 7179 4143 7185 4164 7199
      4164 7192 4165 7187 4165 7180 4164 7178
      4161 7178

JM

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:28 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Jun 6, 4:42 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Bronx, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and 1 more	23 hr
Jun 6, 4:42 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk	20 hr
Jun 6, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	47 min
Jun 6, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	45 min
Jun 6, 7:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Kings, New York, Richmond	56 min
Jun 6, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond	47 min
Jun 6, 7:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond	54 min
Jun 6, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		52 min
Jun 6, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Hudson	45 min
Jun 6, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		50 min
Jun 6, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	27 min

Nearby

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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.