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Coastal Flood Statement 29, NWS New York, NY

August 11, 2018Kings County, Richmond County, New York; Essex County, Hudson County, Union County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this coastal flood statement at Aug 11, 2018, 3:27 AM EDT for Kings County, Richmond County, New York; Essex County, Hudson County, Union County, New Jersey. It took effect at Aug 11, 2018, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 2018, 3:27 AM EDT (07:27 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 11, 2018, 7:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 11, 2018, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Kings County, NY, Richmond County, NY

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this coastal flood 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 coastal flood statement went out at Aug 11, 1:53 AM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:53 AM EDT, 1 hour 34 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 11, 3:27 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	22 hr
Aug 11, 3:27 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Nassau, Queens, Westchester	22 hr
Aug 11, 4:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	3 hr
Aug 11, 4:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	63 min
Aug 11, 4:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Suffolk	3 hr
Aug 11, 4:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	53 min
Aug 11, 4:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Suffolk	49 min
Aug 11, 4:57 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		45 min
Aug 11, 5:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	62 min
Aug 11, 5:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	97 min
Aug 11, 7:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Richmond	39 min
Aug 11, 7:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Kings, New York, Richmond	90 min
Aug 11, 7:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	99 min
Aug 11, 7:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		45 min
Aug 11, 7:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Westchester	91 min
Aug 11, 8:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens	36 min
Aug 11, 8:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Rockland, Westchester	109 min
Aug 11, 8:18 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		87 min
Aug 11, 8:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Westchester	52 min
Aug 11, 8:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Westchester	51 min
Aug 11, 8:59 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		61 min
Aug 11, 9:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	87 min
Aug 11, 9:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau	60 min
Aug 11, 9:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	116 min
Aug 11, 4:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Rockland, Westchester	3 hr
Aug 11, 4:50 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Richmond, Suffolk	33 hr
Aug 11, 4:50 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Nassau, Queens, Westchester	33 hr
Aug 11, 6:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, New York, Queens	40 min
Aug 11, 6:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union	2 hr
Aug 11, 6:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Essex, Union	53 min
Aug 11, 7:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union	2 hr
Aug 11, 2:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union	2 hr
Aug 11, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Passaic	2 hr
Aug 11, 5:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen	2 hr
Aug 11, 5:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Passaic	85 min
Aug 11, 6:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Passaic	118 min
Aug 11, 7:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Essex	3 hr
Aug 11, 5:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	67 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.