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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

October 4, 2012Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Oct 4, 2012, 3:41 PM EDT for Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 49 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: Oct 4, 2012, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired: Oct 4, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Passaic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 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 Oct 4, 3:26 PM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 3:26 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 4, 3:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 4, 3:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
341 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012

NJZ002-103-042030-
WESTERN BERGEN-WESTERN PASSAIC-
341 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012

...SHOWERS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN BERGEN AND PASSAIC COUNTIES...

AT 338 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEST MILFORD
IN PASSAIC COUNTY AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE INCH AN HOUR...IS
POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS. THIS COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS... AND MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

LAT...LON 4107 7449 4109 7450 4117 7441 4120 7435
      4110 7412 4105 7408 4100 7431 4101 7439
      4103 7442 4102 7443 4105 7445 4103 7450
      4104 7450

MET

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 4, 4:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Orange, Rockland	118 min
Oct 4, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	44 min
Oct 4, 4:46 PM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	OKX		17 hr
Oct 4, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	42 min
Oct 4, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Westchester	43 min
Oct 4, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Westchester	47 min
Oct 4, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		3 min
Oct 4, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Union	52 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.