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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

August 14, 2016

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2016, 2:28 AM EDT. It was in force for 62 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 14, 2016, 2:28 AM EDT (06:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2016, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 2757 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 930 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 14, 1:44 AM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 1:44 AM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 1:48 AM EDT, 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:16 AM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:42 AM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:47 AM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:28 AM EDT, 0 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
Aug 13, 8:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bronx, Westchester	40 min
Aug 13, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Westchester	51 min
Aug 13, 8:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Westchester	117 min
Aug 13, 8:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		51 min
Aug 13, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Putnam, Westchester	42 min
Aug 13, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	New York	50 min
Aug 13, 9:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		43 min
Aug 13, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	67 min
Aug 13, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		42 min
Aug 13, 10:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	25 min
Aug 13, 11:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	26 min
Aug 13, 11:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	23 min
Aug 14, 12:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	27 min
Aug 14, 1:05 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		40 min
Aug 14, 1:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	28 min
Aug 14, 1:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	27 min
Aug 14, 3:26 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond	27 hr
Aug 14, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	62 min
Aug 14, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	49 min
Aug 14, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	47 min
Aug 14, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Putnam	24 min
Aug 14, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		51 min
Aug 14, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau	46 min
Aug 14, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bergen, Passaic	30 min
Aug 14, 1:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Passaic	41 min
Aug 13, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		45 min
Aug 13, 10:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		43 min
Aug 14, 12:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		36 min
Aug 14, 12:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	39 min
Aug 14, 1:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		39 min
Aug 14, 1:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		29 min
Aug 14, 1:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.