Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 8:36 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1992, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1992, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 250036 SVRNYC NJC003-013-017-031-250135- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK CITY NY 836 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY...ESSEX COUNTY...HUDSON COUNTY ...SOUTHERN PASSAIC COUNTY ...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AT 83O THIS EVENING WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN ESSEX COUNTY OF NEW JERSEY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER AS IT MOVED ACROSS MORRIS COUNTY. THERE WAS A CONFIRMED REPORT OF A TORNADO OVER SCHOOLEYS MOUNTAIN IN MORRIS COUNTY...SMALL HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS WELL AS NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DAMAGING WINDS. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AND HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS ESSEX COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PASSAIC COUNTY BY 9 PM AND INTO HUDSON COUNTY BY 915 TONIGHT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. CAROPOLO
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, Jun 24, 5:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
NJ001-005-007-015-NYZ-14-017-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 530 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992 ...DO NOT USE AFTER 7 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES TO BE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN HALF OF NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN NEW YORK STATE UNTIL 900 PM EDT. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN SULLIVAN COUNTY OF NEW YORK STATE. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY RAIN WAS OVER NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY. THESE STORM WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM OVER SULLIVAN COUNTY WILL BE MOVING INTO ORANGE AND ULSTER COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THE STORM OVER DUTCHESS COUNTY SHOULD BE MOVING INTO LITCHEFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR ALOS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER MOST OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND INTO SOUTHEAST NEW YORK STATE. A NEW AREA OF SHOWRS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVERN EXTREMEES SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA OVER CHESTER AND DELAWARE COUNTIES. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
NJ001-005-007-015-NYZ-14-017-250000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 630 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992 ...DO NOT USE AFTER 8 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES TO BE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN HALF OF NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN NEW YORK STATE UNTIL 900 PM EDT. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY OF NEW YORK STATE. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY RAIN WAS OVER NORTHERN LITCHFILD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER MOST OF ESOUTHEAST NEW YORK STATE AND MOVING INT THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHESTTS. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER NORTHERN vDELAWARE AND QUICKLY MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF NEW JERSEY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORM WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
CTZ001-004-005-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 700 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR ALL OF CONNECTICUT EXCEPT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST... AT 655 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ENTERING EXTREME WESTERN CONNECTICUT NEAR THE TOWNS OF KENT...NEW MILFORD...SHERMAN... AND NEW FAIRFIELD...OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST LITCHFIELD COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. BOATERS ON CANDLEWOOD LAKE SHOULD SEEK A SAFE HARBOR NOW TO AVOID DANGEROUS WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERV=ED...PLEASE HAVE YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. BINGHAM
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:42 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
NJ001-005-007-015-NYZ-14-017-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 730 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992 ...DO NOT USE AFTER 9 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES TO BE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN HALF OF NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN NEW YORK STATE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH POSSIBLE HAIL WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY FROM ATLANTIC COUNTY NORTH THROUGH EASTERN OCEAN COUNTY. THESE SYSTEM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. A THUDERSTROM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE MOVCING INTO ESSEX COUNTY VERY SHORTLY. SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY OF NEW YORK STATE AND MOVING EAST INTO LITCHIFILD COUNTY OF NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 8:24 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
CTZ001-002-004-005-250230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 820 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR NEW HAVEN...MIDDLESEX...AND FAIRFIELD COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT... AT 815 PM EDT...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED IN THESE COUNTIES. HOWEVER THERE WERE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OCCURRING...FROM JUST NORTH OF DANBURY...INTO THE WATERBURY AREA. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR LOCAL CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BINGHAM
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 8:30 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
NJ001-005-007-015-NYZ-14-017-250200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 830 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1992 ...DO NOT USE AFTER 10 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES TO BE IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN HALF OF NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN NEW YORK STATE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL LITCHFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM PUTNAM AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES OF NEW YORK STATE EAST THROUGH MOST OF CONNECTICUT AND EXTENDING INTO SECTIONS OF CENTRAL MASSACHETTS. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER NORTHERN MARYLAND JUST NORTH OF BALTIMORE. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGER SYSTEM OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT STRETCHEDT FROM CENTRAL MARYLAND NORTH THROUGH SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANAI AND NEW JERSEY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. KLEIN
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.