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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

August 7, 2019Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2019, 7:41 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 49 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 7, 2019, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2019, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 12 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: 1372 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 7, 6:48 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:48 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 6:44 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:43 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 6:43 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 7:33 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 7, 7:38 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 7:41 PM 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 6, 10:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Orange	2 hr
Aug 7, 5:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Richmond	91 min
Aug 7, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		65 min
Aug 7, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Richmond	28 min
Aug 7, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Rockland	41 min
Aug 7, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	40 min
Aug 7, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	44 min
Aug 7, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		67 min
Aug 7, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Richmond	40 min
Aug 7, 4:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond	3 hr
Aug 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Richmond	3 hr
Aug 7, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Kings, Richmond	40 min
Aug 7, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		53 min
Aug 7, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens	49 min
Aug 7, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	45 min
Aug 7, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens	40 min
Aug 7, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		64 min
Aug 7, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		63 min
Aug 7, 7:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		66 min
Aug 7, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		67 min
Aug 7, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Essex, Hudson, Union	39 min
Aug 7, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union	42 min
Aug 7, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union	4 hr
Aug 7, 2:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union	3 hr
Aug 7, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union	21 min
Aug 7, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bergen	39 min
Aug 7, 5:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union	3 hr
Aug 7, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		25 min
Aug 7, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		47 min
Aug 7, 7:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	95 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2019 Every special weather 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.