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Snow Squall Warning 5, NWS New York, NY

December 5, 2024Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this snow squall warning at Dec 5, 2024, 9:27 AM EST for Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 5, 2024, 9:27 AM EST (14:27 UTC)
Expired
Dec 5, 2024, 10:15 AM EST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 2024-12-05Temperature 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 2024-12-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 210 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
270 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
Dec 5, 4:44 AM ESTLow Water AdvisoryOKX11 hr
Dec 5, 9:17 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementOKXBronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond58 min
Dec 5, 10:11 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementOKXBronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond49 min
Dec 5, 10:13 AM ESTSnow Squall WarningOKXOrange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester62 min
Dec 5, 11:10 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementOKXPutnam, Westchester50 min
Dec 5, 11:36 AM ESTSnow Squall WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region54 min
Dec 5, 12:36 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementOKX54 min

Nearby

Snow Squall Warnings in New York, 2024Snow Squall Warnings in New Jersey, 2024Every snow squall warning in 2024

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.