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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

July 19, 2020Orange County, Putnam County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2020, 8:50 PM EDT for Orange County, Putnam County, New York. It was in force for 40 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: Jul 19, 2020, 8:50 PM EDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2020, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

Counties Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 397 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 347 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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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
Jul 19, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	37 min
Jul 20, 5:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2020 Every special weather statement 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.