Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2012

Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

August 15, 2012Nassau County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 15, 2012, 2:06 PM EDT for Nassau County, New York. It was in force for 54 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: Aug 15, 2012, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Nassau County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 1897 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</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 Aug 15, 1:13 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 1:13 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 10:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1000 AM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

ANZ330-335-338-340-345-350-353-355-161400-
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-
1000 AM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 35 KT...HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY...THEN LOW PRESSURE MAY IMPACT THE REGION
THIS WEEKEND. THESE SYSTEMS COULD PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

&&

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>075-078>081-176>179-161400-
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)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-
NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
NORTHERN QUEENS-NORTHERN NASSAU-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
1000 AM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN
CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

IN ADDITION TO THE THE SEVERE THREAT...ANY STORMS WHICH DEVELOP
WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...WHICH COULD
LEAD TO AREAS OF FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY...THEN LOW PRESSURE MAY IMPACT THE REGION
THIS WEEKEND. THESE SYSTEMS COULD PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

&&

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.

JMC

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 15, 12:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, Aug 15, 12:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 12:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, Aug 15, 12:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, Aug 15, 1:54 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 2:06 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 12:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau	67 min
Aug 15, 1:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	92 min
Aug 15, 1:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	58 min
Aug 15, 2:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	54 min
Aug 15, 2:36 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		54 min
Aug 15, 3:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		65 min
Aug 15, 3:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	62 min
Aug 15, 4:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Putnam, Westchester	48 min
Aug 15, 5:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Putnam, Westchester	88 min
Aug 15, 6:09 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		66 min
Aug 15, 7:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	70 min
Aug 15, 11:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau	29 min
Aug 15, 11:16 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Nassau	89 min
Aug 15, 11:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	50 min
Aug 15, 11:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	61 min
Aug 15, 12:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		83 min
Aug 15, 12:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	51 min
Aug 15, 12:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Suffolk	78 min
Aug 15, 12:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	54 min
Aug 15, 12:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Suffolk	54 min
Aug 15, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	New York, Queens	55 min
Aug 15, 1:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Kings, Queens	81 min
Aug 15, 1:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Queens	80 min
Aug 15, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Kings, New York, Queens	51 min
Aug 15, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		87 min
Aug 15, 1:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	85 min
Aug 15, 3:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Kings, Queens	116 min
Aug 15, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens	43 min
Aug 15, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		69 min
Aug 15, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bronx, New York, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	54 min
Aug 15, 4:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Orange, Rockland, Westchester	112 min
Aug 15, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Putnam	90 min
Aug 15, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	57 min
Aug 15, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		2 hr
Aug 15, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Richmond	53 min
Aug 15, 5:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	50 min
Aug 15, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	62 min
Aug 15, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bergen, Passaic	60 min
Aug 15, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bergen, Passaic	58 min
Aug 15, 5:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		63 min
Aug 15, 6:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		58 min
Aug 15, 6:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	63 min
Aug 15, 7:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	54 min
Aug 15, 7:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		51 min
Aug 15, 7:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	73 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 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.