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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

July 15, 2023Rockland County, New York; Bergen County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2023, 4:21 PM EDT for Rockland County, New York; Bergen County, New Jersey. It was in force for 39 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 15, 2023, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2023, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 30

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Rockland County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 Jul 15, 2:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 1:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:21 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
Jul 14, 10:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	New York	40 min
Jul 15, 3:32 AM EDT	Flood Watch	OKX	Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more	41 hr
Jul 15, 3:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Sullivan	25 min
Jul 15, 1:50 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	OKX	Kings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk	4 days
Jul 15, 3:17 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	OKX		51 hr
Jul 15, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Richmond	76 min
Jul 15, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		39 min
Jul 15, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Richmond	33 min
Jul 14, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bergen, Essex	52 min
Jul 14, 9:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Bergen	42 min
Jul 14, 9:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bergen, Passaic	75 min
Jul 14, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Essex	39 min
Jul 14, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Essex, Union	21 min
Jul 14, 10:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Essex, Union	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2023 Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2023 Every special weather statement in 2023

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.