Alert archive / New York / Freeze Warnings in 2020
Freeze Warning 8, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this freeze warning at May 13, 2020, 2:54 PM EDT for Orange County, Putnam County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at May 14, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 13, 2020, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 14, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 14, 2020, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:54 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | OKX | Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester | 17 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in New York, 2020Freeze Warnings in Connecticut, 2020Every freeze warning in 2020
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.