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Freeze Watch 2, NWS New York, NY

April 8, 20168 counties in New York; 4 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this freeze watch at Apr 8, 2016, 3:55 AM EDT for 8 counties in New York; 4 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 10, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 2016, 3:55 AM EDT (07:55 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 10, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 9, 2016, 4:30 AM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS New York, NY

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2016-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2016-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 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 freeze 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 freeze watch went out at Apr 8, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 8:17 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementOKXWestchester6 hr
Apr 8, 4:01 AM EDTGale WatchOKX11 hr
Apr 8, 3:05 PM EDTGale WarningOKX39 hr
Apr 8, 7:22 PM EDTFreeze WarningOKXSuffolk13 hr

Nearby

Freeze Watches in New York, 2016Freeze Watches in New Jersey, 2016Freeze Watches in Connecticut, 2016Every freeze watch in 2016

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.