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Freeze Warning 2, NWS New York, NY

October 9, 20254 counties in New York; Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 9, 2025, 1:55 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Passaic County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Connecticut. It took effect at Oct 10, 2025, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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 9, 2025, 1:55 AM EDT (05:55 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 10, 2025, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 10, 2025, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 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, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 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 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 00:00Z on 2025-10-09Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2025-10-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -174 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 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 9, 2:00 PM EDTHigh Wind WatchOKXKings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk8 min
Oct 9, 2:08 PM EDTHigh Wind WatchOKXKings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk49 hr
Oct 9, 2:30 PM EDTCoastal Flood WatchOKXBronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 2 more50 hr
Oct 9, 2:30 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementOKXNassau22 hr
Oct 9, 2:33 PM EDTGale WatchOKX36 hr
Oct 9, 2:33 PM EDTStorm WatchOKX50 hr
Oct 9, 1:02 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryOKXBergen, Passaic20 hr
Oct 9, 2:30 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region26 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2025Freeze Warnings in Connecticut, 2025Freeze Warnings in New Jersey, 2025Every freeze warning in 2025

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.