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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Oct 4, 2012, 4:53 PM EDT for Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
County Union County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 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
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 Oct 4, 3:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 3:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 4, 4:48 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 448 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012 CTZ005>012-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>075-078>081-176>179-051000- 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- 448 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. 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. ANZ330-335-338-340-345-350-353-355-051000- 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- 448 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. DENSE FOG ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. 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, Oct 4, 3:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 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
METSpecial weather statement, Oct 4, 4:31 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
431 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
NYZ067-042115-
ORANGE-
431 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WILL IMPACT EASTERN ORANGE COUNTY...
AT 425 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS NEAR CHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO AN INCH AN HOUR IS
OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. 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 4159 7404 4159 7397 4159 7395 4157 7395
4154 7398 4152 7399 4146 7399 4144 7398
4140 7396 4127 7416 4137 7439
METSpecial weather statement, Oct 4, 4:53 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
453 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
NJZ105>108-042145-
EASTERN ESSEX-EASTERN UNION-WESTERN ESSEX-WESTERN UNION-
453 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN ESSEX AND UNION
COUNTIES...
AT 448 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOUND BROOK MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
WINDS UP TO 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...VERY
HEAVY RAIN...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE 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 4071 7442 4080 7419 4066 7415 4065 7416
4059 7442 4059 7446 4060 7446 4063 7442
4066 7441 4065 7445 4067 7447
METThe 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, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Passaic | 49 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.