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Freeze Warning 4, NWS New York, NY

October 29, 2022Orange County, Putnam County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 29, 2022, 3:32 PM EDT for Orange County, Putnam County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Oct 30, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
Oct 29, 2022, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 30, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 30, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
7 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, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2022-10-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2022-10-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 3:55 AM EDTFreeze WatchOKXOrange, Putnam12 hr
Oct 29, 3:32 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryOKXRockland, Westchester17 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Connecticut, 2022Freeze Warnings in New York, 2022Freeze Warnings in New Jersey, 2022Every freeze warning in 2022

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.