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Special Weather Statement, NWS New York, NY

August 29, 2025Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 29, 2025, 3:21 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. 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: Aug 29, 2025, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 30

County Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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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
Aug 29, 3:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	32 min
Aug 29, 4:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	91 min
Aug 28, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		42 min
Aug 29, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		27 min
Aug 29, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		42 min
Aug 29, 2:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	113 min
Aug 29, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		49 min
Aug 29, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		49 min

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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.