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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

August 6, 2016Bronx County, New York County, Richmond County, New York; Bergen County, Hudson County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT for Bronx County, New York County, Richmond County, New York; Bergen County, Hudson County, New Jersey. It was in force for 44 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: Aug 6, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, New York County, NY, Richmond County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

965 
WWUS81 KOKX 062016
SPSOKX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
416 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

NJZ004-006-103-104-106-108-NYZ069>074-062100-
EASTERN UNION-EASTERN PASSAIC-WESTERN BERGEN-EASTERN
ESSEX-HUDSON-EASTERN BERGEN-BRONX-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN
WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-ROCKLAND-RICHMOND (STATEN IS.)-
416 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN UNION...EASTERN
PASSAIC...SOUTHEASTERN ESSEX...BERGEN...HUDSON...ROCKLAND...
RICHMOND...SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER...NEW YORK AND BRONX COUNTIES...

AT 415 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR PEARL RIVER TO MILLBURN TO NEAR
CLOVERHILL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...  PARAMUS...RIDGEWOOD...NANUET AND PEARL
RIVER AROUND 420 PM EDT.  ORADELL AROUND 425 PM EDT.  
BERGENFIELD...TAPPAN AND ORANGEBURG AROUND 430 PM EDT. 
BLOOMFIELD...LINDEN...NYACK AND NORWOOD AROUND 435 PM EDT. 
NEWARK...ELIZABETH AND NORTH TARRYTOWN AROUND 440 PM EDT. 
HARRISON...TARRYTOWN AND DOBBS FERRY AROUND 445 PM EDT. 
YONKERS...LYNDHURST AND KEARNY AROUND 450 PM EDT.   BAYONNE...TODT
HILL...PORT RICHMOND AND HAWTHORNE AROUND 455 PM EDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE UPPER SADDLE
RIVER... WYCKOFF...MOUNT VERNON...SPRING
VALLEY...HILLSIDE...WASHINGTON HEIGHTS...
CLIFTON...MONTVALE...BOGOTA AND ROSELLE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4050 7427 4059 7421 4062 7431 4082 7418
      4090 7427 4112 7406 4110 7372 4100 7365
      4104 7359 4099 7360 4090 7375 4085 7376
      4087 7370 4079 7378 4078 7394 4060 7403
      4060 7401
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 285DEG 15KT 4105 7404 4074 7432 4052 7475 

$$

JMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam, Rockland	44 min
Aug 6, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Queens, Richmond	49 min
Aug 6, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bergen, Passaic	43 min
Aug 6, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Essex, Union	45 min
Aug 6, 3:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	55 min
Aug 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	60 min
Aug 6, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		47 min
Aug 6, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		41 min
Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		46 min
Aug 6, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		41 min
Aug 6, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		58 min
Aug 6, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		24 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.