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Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this winter storm watch at Mar 1, 2018, 3:58 AM EST for Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey. It took effect at Mar 2, 2018, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2018, 3:58 AM EST (08:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2018, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2018, 3:26 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 1, 12:00 AM EST, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 12:00 AM EST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 3:58 AM EST | High Wind Warning | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 3 more | 45 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:58 AM EST | Storm Warning | OKX | 48 hr | |
| Mar 1, 4:30 AM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens | 30 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:30 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | OKX | Kings, New York, Richmond, Suffolk | 37 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:30 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester | 30 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:17 PM EST | Wind Advisory | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 12 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:26 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | OKX | Orange | 30 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:26 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | OKX | Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 30 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2018Winter Storm Watches in New Jersey, 2018Every winter storm watch in 2018
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.