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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

July 3, 2013Bronx County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2013, 7:49 PM EDT for Bronx County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 41 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 3, 2013, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2013, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Bronx County, NY, Queens County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Queens	73 min
Jul 2, 8:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Nassau	86 min
Jul 2, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau	67 min
Jul 3, 1:27 PM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	OKX		9 hr
Jul 3, 2:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, New York, Westchester	60 min
Jul 3, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond	55 min
Jul 3, 1:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union	53 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.