Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 3:47 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1992, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1992, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Middlesex County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 041948 RRA SVRNYC NJC023-042030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 347 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...MIDDLESEX COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN NEW YORK CITY DETECTED AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS SHOWING SIGNS OF BECOMING SEVERE. IT WAS ON THE MIDDLESEX/MERCER COUNTY BORDER NEAR PRINCETON AND WILL BE ENTERING MIDDLESEX COUNTY SHORTLY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WITH THE PRESENT MOTION SHOULD PASS CLOSE TO JAMESBURG AT 400 PM AND NEW BRUNSWICK AT 415 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 12:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
NJZ001-005-007-015-NYZ014>017-023-024-040200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1230 PM EDT TUESDAY AUG 4 1992 ...PLEASE DO NOT USE AFTER 2 PM EDT... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT FOR ORANGE COUNTY... OUR RADAR IS NOT DETECTING ANY SEVERE WEATHER AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS RAPIDILY DEVELOPED DURING THE PAST HOUR. MOST OF THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS ARE IN SULLIVAN AND DELAWARE COUNTIES WITH ONE THUNDERSTORM JUST 20 MILES TO THE WEST OF MIDDLETOWN NEW YORK. THIS SHOULD BE ENTERING ORANGE COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUE ON THE EXTREME EASTERN END OF LONG ISLAN(D SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS WERE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IZZO
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
NJZ001-005-007-015-NYZ014>017-023-024-040200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 130 PM EDT TUESDAY AUG 4 1992 ...PLEASE DO NOT USE AFTER 3 PM EDT... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT FOR ORANGE COUNTY... OUR RADAR IS NOT DETECTING ANY SEVERE WEATHER AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IS RUMBLING ACROSS UPSTATE NEW YORK AS WELL SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK. THERE IS ONE THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN NEAR ELLENVILLE IN ULSTER COUNTY WHILE ONE OTHER STORM IN ORANGE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF STEWART FIELD. THESE ARE PART OF A RAPIDILY DEVELOPING AREA OF VERY STRONG STORMS WHICH EXTENDED AS FAR BACK AS BJINGHAMTON NEW YORK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IZZO
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
NJZ001-005-007-015-NYZ014>017-023-024-040200
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
230 PM EDT TUESDAY AUG 4 1992
...PLEASE DO NOT USE AFTER 4 PM EDT...
...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...ORANGE...PUTNAM...ROCKLAND...AND WESTCHESTER
OUR RADAR IS NOT DETECTING ANY SEVERE WEATHER AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER AN
AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO ROLL
ACROSS UPSTATE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK. THERE IS ONE THUNDERSTORM
WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR RHINEBECK NEW YORK IN DUTCHESS COUNTY WHILE
ANOTHER STORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT
NEAR DANBURY. THESE ARE jPART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WHICH EXTENDED WESTWARD TO WILLIAMSPORT PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHWARD TO
GLENFALLS NEW YORK.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
IZZOSpecial weather statement, Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
NYZ014>017-023-024-NJZ001-005-007-015-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 320 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NEW YORK CITY ...NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES OF LONG ISLAND AND ALL OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY UNTIL 900 PM... ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PUTNAM...ORANGE...ROCKLAND AND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM... A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS FRONT IS COMBINING WITH AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL. THE COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP OFF THE COAST LATER THIS EVENING TAKING THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WITH IT. A COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA GIVING US CALM BUT COOLER THAN NORMAL WEATHER. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BROWN
Local storm report, Aug 4, 3:31 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT
330 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992
STORM REPORT FOR TUESDAY AUG 4 1992 FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
715 AM EDT MANY TREES UPROOTED AND TORN OFF IN THE TOWN OF TRUMBULL.
NWS BDR CONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCH DOWN OCCURRED ON SHARON STREET
TRUMBULL CT. NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE...NO INJURIES...TREE FELL
INTO ONE HOUSE. DETERMINED F1 DUE TO DAMAGE TO TREES.
730 AM EDT SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN ORANGE CONNECTICUT APPEARS FROM
STRAIGHT LINE WIND.
715 AM EDT SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN TOWN OF EASTON CT.
FOOSESpecial weather statement, Aug 4, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 minute before
NJZ001-005-007-015-NYZ014>017-023-024-040200
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
330 PM EDT TUESDAY AUG 4 1992
...PLEASE DO NOT USE AFTER 5 PM EDT...
...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...ORANGE...PUTNAM...ROCKLAND...AND WESTCHESTER
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR
NEW YORK CITY...NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES...AND ALL OF NEW
JERSEY.
A CLUSTER OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE ROLLING ACROSS NEW JERSEY.
ONE STORM IS WEST OF TETERBORO WHILE ANOTHER IS NEAR PLAINFIELD.
ONE STRONG STORM IS JUST NEAR TRENTON WHICH COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AS IT MOVES ACROSS
NERCER COUNTY. A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM EXTENDED FROM
GLENFALLS NEW YORK SOUTHWESTWARD TO HARRISBURG. ELSEWHERE VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
RIThe office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Monmouth | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.