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Winter Storm Watch 7, NWS New York, NY

February 20, 2015Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this winter storm watch at Feb 20, 2015, 4:20 PM EST for Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Feb 21, 2015, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 20, 2015, 4:20 PM EST (21:20 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 21, 2015, 12:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 21, 2015, 4:02 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 20, 12:49 PM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 12:49 PM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 20, 12:15 PM EST, 4 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
Feb 20, 3:58 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	OKX		17 hr
Feb 20, 3:59 AM EST	Wind Chill Warning	OKX	Orange	6 hr
Feb 20, 4:20 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more	43 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2015 Winter Storm Watches in New Jersey, 2015 Every winter storm watch in 2015

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.