Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT for Morris County, Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1990, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morris County, NJ, Sussex 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KNYC 220003
SVRNYC
NJC037-027-220045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
800 PM EDT THU JUN 21 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY
SUSSEX...MORRIS
RADAR SHOWED A POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWESTERN
NEW JERSEY AT 8 PM EDT. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST ABOUT
25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WOULD TAKE THE STORM THROUGH CENTRAL SUSSEX
COUNTY AND INTO NORTHERN MORRIS COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
GRANTWhat 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:50 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
CTZ004-005-220030 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER BRIDGEPORT CT 745 PM EDT THU JUN 21 1990 ... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEWBURGH NEW YORK MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY BY 800 PM. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEWBURGH NEW YORK MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS....LOCALLY HEAVY DOUNPOURS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AND SEEK SHELTER IF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEARS YOUR AREA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WALKER
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.