Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 24, 2012, 7:21 PM EDT for Richmond County, New York. It was in force for 24 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 24, 2012, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2012, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
County Richmond County, NY
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
949
WWUS81 KOKX 242321
SPSOKX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
721 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2012
NYZ074-242345-
RICHMOND (STATEN IS.)-
721 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND) COUNTY...
AT 719 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OAKWOOD...OR NEAR HUGUENOT...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
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 4052 7426 4054 7426 4056 7422 4058 7422
4060 7420 4063 7420 4065 7418 4065 7409
4063 7406 4060 7405 4052 7413 4053 7415
4049 7422
$$
MPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:29 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 31 hr | |
| Jul 24, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Putnam | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 29 min | |
| Jul 24, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 40 min | |
| Jul 24, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 42 min | |
| Jul 24, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Suffolk | 59 min |
| Jul 24, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Nassau | 42 min |
| Jul 24, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 49 min | |
| Jul 24, 4:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 44 min | |
| Jul 24, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 66 min |
| Jul 24, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 66 min | |
| Jul 24, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 61 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.