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Coastal Flood Statement 29, NWS New York, NY

December 24, 20144 counties in New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this coastal flood statement at Dec 24, 2014, 3:29 AM EST for 4 counties in New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Dec 24, 2014, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 24, 2014, 3:29 AM EST (08:29 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 24, 2014, 11:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 24, 2014, 1:32 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Bronx County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at Dec 24, 12:24 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 12:24 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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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
Dec 24, 3:29 AM EST	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Queens	8 hr
Dec 24, 3:37 AM EST	Gale Watch	OKX		12 hr
Dec 24, 3:40 PM EST	Gale Warning	OKX		23 hr
Dec 24, 4:38 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	OKX		11 hr
Dec 24, 4:39 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk, Westchester	13 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New York, 2014 Coastal Flood Statements in Connecticut, 2014 Every coastal flood statement in 2014

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.