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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS New York, NY

February 16, 2016Kings County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2016, 2:21 PM EST for Kings County, Queens County, New York. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2016, 2:21 PM EST (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2016, 3:00 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kings County, NY, Queens County, NY

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 16, 2:26 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	1 Wnw Woodside Houses, NY	LARGE BRANCHES DOWN ON 37TH STREET.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 391 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

618 
WUUS51 KOKX 161921
SVROKX
NYC047-081-162000-
/O.NEW.KOKX.SV.W.0003.160216T1921Z-160216T2000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
221 PM EST TUE FEB 16 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KINGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...
  QUEENS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 300 PM EST

* AT 219 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG SHOWER CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED OVER HOLMDEL...OR 9 MILES WEST OF LONG BRANCH...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THIS STRONG SHOWER WILL BE NEAR...
  CONEY ISLAND...SHEEPSHEAD BAY...ARTURO TOSCANINI PS AND BENSONHURST
  AROUND 245 PM EST.
  FLATBUSH...CROWN HEIGHTS AND CANARSIE AROUND 250 PM EST.
  KENNEDY AIRPORT...HOWARD BEACH AND OZONE PARK AROUND 255 PM EST.
  JAMAICA...CLEARVIEW EXPRESSWAY AND FOREST HILLS AROUND 300 PM EST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE WOODSIDE
AND GREENPOINT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS SHOWER CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT
DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4057 7387 4060 7392 4059 7392 4057 7400
      4058 7399 4063 7404 4066 7401 4066 7400
      4067 7401 4079 7391 4079 7388 4080 7386
      4080 7384 4073 7371 4072 7373 4066 7373
      4059 7379 4054 7394 4055 7394
TIME...MOT...LOC 1919Z 221DEG 43KT 4031 7417 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 1:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens	91 min
Feb 16, 1:19 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	OKX		86 min
Feb 16, 1:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	88 min
Feb 16, 2:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, Queens	28 min
Feb 16, 2:51 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	OKX		54 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.