Alert archive / New York / Freeze Warnings in 2021
Freeze Warning 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this freeze warning at Apr 2, 2021, 3:28 PM EDT for Essex County, Hudson County, Union County, New Jersey; 6 counties in New York. It took effect at Apr 2, 2021, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 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
- Apr 2, 2021, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2021, 10:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
573 WWUS71 KOKX 021928 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Upton NY 328 PM EDT Fri Apr 2 2021 NJZ006-106-108-NYZ072>075-176>179-030900- /O.UPG.KOKX.FZ.A.0002.210403T0600Z-210403T1300Z/ /O.NEW.KOKX.FZ.W.0002.210403T0200Z-210403T1400Z/ Hudson-Eastern Essex-Eastern Union-New York (Manhattan)-Bronx- Richmond (Staten Island)-Kings (Brooklyn)-Northern Queens- Northern Nassau-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 328 PM EDT Fri Apr 2 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT SATURDAY... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Portions of northeast New Jersey and southeast New York. * WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 10 AM EDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing. && $$
1 follow-up statement
709 WWUS71 KOKX 030722 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Upton NY 322 AM EDT Sat Apr 3 2021 NJZ006-106-108-NYZ072>075-176>179-031400- /O.CON.KOKX.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-210403T1400Z/ Hudson-Eastern Essex-Eastern Union-New York (Manhattan)-Bronx- Richmond (Staten Island)-Kings (Brooklyn)-Northern Queens- Northern Nassau-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 322 AM EDT Sat Apr 3 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30. * WHERE...Portions of northeast New Jersey and southeast New York. * WHEN...Until 10 AM EDT this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above- ground pipes to protect them from freezing. && $$
Nearby
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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.