Thunderstorm Wind — Rockland, New York

2025-07-08 · near Cedar Flats, Rockland, New York

Event narrative

Tree down on the exit 16 ramp of the Palisades Interstate Parkway.

Wider weather episode

At the surface, a cold front slowly approached from the west, with a pre-frontal trough developing ahead of it. Aloft, the area remained generally on the eastern edge of mid/upper level troughing. While shear was not all that impressive (about 25 kt of 0-6km bulk shear), strong heating aided in MLCAPE values reaching about 2000 j/kg. With lift from the aforementioned features, and likely help from the right entrance region of an upper level jet streak, showers and thunderstorms started to develop. Some storms reached severe criteria and produce damaging wind gusts.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1277785. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.