Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1991, 2:37 PM EDT for Essex County, Morris County, Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 1991, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1991, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Essex County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Union County, NJ
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Union, NJ |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 772 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 1:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Hunterdon, Somerset | 60 min |
| Aug 20, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hunterdon, Somerset | 60 min |
| Aug 20, 2:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Middlesex | 59 min |
| Aug 20, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Middlesex | 59 min |
| Aug 20, 2:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Somerset | 55 min |
| Aug 20, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Somerset | 55 min |
| Aug 20, 2:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Essex, Morris, Union | 68 min |
| Aug 20, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 90 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.