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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2012, 8:30 AM EDT for Bronx County, Nassau County, New York; Bergen County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 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
- Jul 15, 2012, 8:30 AM EDT (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2012, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Nassau County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 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 Jul 15, 7:38 AM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 7:38 AM EDT, 52 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 454 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 NYZ075-080-081-178-179-160945- KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 454 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY AT TIMES THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. ANY AREAS EXPERIENCING THIS COULD HAVE MINOR POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN FLOODING. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IF ANY LOCATION RECEIVES MORE THAN ONE BOUT OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THAT WOULD MEET NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING CRITERIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. && 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. CTZ005>012-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>074-078-079-176-177-160945- NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-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)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- NORTHERN QUEENS-NORTHERN NASSAU- 454 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY AT TIMES THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. ANY AREAS EXPERIENCING THIS COULD HAVE MINOR POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN FLOODING. LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IF ANY LOCATION RECEIVES MORE THAN ONE BOUT OF HEAVY RAINFALL IN A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THAT WOULD MEET NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING CRITERIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. && 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. ANZ330-335-338-340-345-350-353-355-160945- 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-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- 454 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. 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, Jul 15, 8:30 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 15, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Orange | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 2:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 82 min |
| Jul 15, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Putnam | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange | 116 min |
| Jul 15, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Orange | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Putnam | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more | 3 days |
| Jul 15, 4:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 51 min |
| Jul 15, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 54 min | |
| Jul 15, 4:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Westchester | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Westchester | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 48 min | |
| Jul 15, 5:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Westchester | 51 min |
| Jul 15, 6:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 61 min |
| Jul 15, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Suffolk | 61 min |
| Jul 15, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 42 min |
| Jul 15, 7:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Putnam, Rockland | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 59 min | |
| Jul 15, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 92 min |
| Jul 15, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 25 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.