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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS New York, NY

August 8, 2026Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2026, 4:21 PM EDT for Kings County, Nassau County, Queens 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 2026, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 669 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 881 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 7:23 PM EDT, 20 hours 58 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
Aug 7, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Suffolk	45 min
Aug 7, 10:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Rockland	5 hr
Aug 8, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	43 min
Aug 8, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	45 min
Aug 8, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	48 min
Aug 8, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	50 min
Aug 8, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Richmond	42 min
Aug 8, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		53 min
Aug 8, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	40 min
Aug 8, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Kings, Queens	40 min
Aug 8, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Kings, Queens	32 min
Aug 8, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		50 min
Aug 7, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		43 min
Aug 7, 8:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	115 min

Nearby

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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.