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Freeze Warning 1, NWS New York, NY

November 1, 20194 counties in New York; Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this freeze warning at Nov 1, 2019, 3:43 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Nov 2, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 1, 2019, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 2, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: Nov 2, 2019, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Passaic County, NJ, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 1329 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 103 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -464 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -366 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 freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Nov 1, 1:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 1:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 1, 12:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 1, 11:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 1, 1:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 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
Oct 31, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	57 min
Oct 31, 10:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	66 min
Oct 31, 11:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Orange	87 min
Oct 31, 11:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	91 min
Oct 31, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester	56 min
Oct 31, 11:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 1 more	65 min
Oct 31, 11:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	54 min
Nov 1, 12:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 4 more	62 min
Nov 1, 12:56 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		64 min
Nov 1, 1:06 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		39 min
Nov 1, 1:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau	43 min
Nov 1, 1:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	50 min
Nov 1, 2:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	43 min
Nov 1, 11:54 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	OKX		20 hr
Nov 1, 3:43 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	OKX	Suffolk, Westchester	18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2019 Freeze Warnings in Connecticut, 2019 Freeze Warnings in New Jersey, 2019 Every freeze warning 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.