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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS New York, NY

August 12, 1988Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1988, 2:40 PM EDT for Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 80 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1988, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1988, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
80 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Passaic County, NJ

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1988-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 927 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1988-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSussex, Warren63 min
Aug 12, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXMorris, Sussex, Warren80 min
Aug 12, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXMonmouth69 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.