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Coastal Flood Statement 14, NWS New York, NY

May 13, 2019Nassau County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this coastal flood statement at May 13, 2019, 6:59 PM EDT for Nassau County, New York. It took effect at May 14, 2019, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2019, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
In effect from: May 14, 2019, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 14, 2019, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Nassau County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 320 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: 1303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 13, 3:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 3:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 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
May 13, 4:27 AM EDT	Gale Warning	OKX		18 hr
May 13, 5:43 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Nassau, Queens	13 hr
May 13, 5:43 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	OKX	Westchester	16 hr
May 13, 5:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Westchester	2 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in New York, 2019 Every coastal flood statement in 2019

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.