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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS New York, NY

January 5, 20244 counties in New York; Bergen County, Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 5, 2024, 2:58 PM EST for 4 counties in New York; Bergen County, Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Jan 6, 2024, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 11 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
Jan 5, 2024, 2:58 PM EST (19:58 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 6, 2024, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 7, 2024, 3:23 AM EST
In force
11 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, Bergen County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2024-01-05Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2024-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -58 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 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
Jan 5, 3:52 AM ESTGale WatchOKX11 hr
Jan 5, 2:58 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryOKXOrange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester49 hr
Jan 5, 3:02 PM ESTGale WarningOKX49 hr
Jan 5, 3:41 PM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryOKXBronx, Kings, Nassau, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and 1 more43 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2024Winter Storm Warnings in Connecticut, 2024Winter Storm Warnings in New Jersey, 2024Every winter storm 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.