Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1994, 4:30 PM EDT for Bergen County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1994, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1994, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 25, 10:55 AM EDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1055 AM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ...UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE... ...MINOR COASTAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE DURING HIGH TIDES... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS OVER NORTH NEW YORK. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED SOUTHEAST FROM THIS LOW OVER CONNECTICUT. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM THE LOW TO ANOTHER DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER MISSOURI. WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ALREADY IN PLACE OVER THE LOCAL REGION...PARTIAL AFTERNOON SUNSHINE ALONG WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL SET THE STAGE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STARTING THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE LOW OVER NEW YORK MOVES NORTHEAST...THE COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE COAST SLOWLY AND BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE COAST DURING THURSDAY AS THE SECOND LOW ADVANCES TOWARD THE REGION. THIS COMBINATION OF EVENTS WILL PRODUCE UNSETTLED WEATHER THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL TOTALS UP TO 1/2 TO 1 INCH ARE PREDICTED ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY...SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING RAINFALL OF 1 AND 1/2 INCHES OVER THE AREAS THEY PASS AND MIGH CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. ADDITIONALLY...MINOR COASTAL FLOODING WAS REPORTED WITH THE OCCURRENCE OF HIGH TIDE THIS MORNING IN MANASQUAN OF SOUTHERN MONMOUTH COUNTY. ALTHOUGH TIDE ANOMALIES ARE LESS THAN 1 FOOT ABOVE NORMAL...WITH THE NEW MOON OCCURRING YESTERDAY...ASTRONOMICAL VALUES ARE HIGHEST TODAY FOR THE MONTH OF MAY. ADDITIONAL MINOR COASTAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THE OCCURRENCE OF THE NEXT HIGH TIDES ACROSS THE LOCAL COASTAL AREAS. GTC
Special weather statement, May 25, 10:58 AM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1055 AM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ...UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE... ...MINOR COASTAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE DURING HIGH TIDES... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS OVER NORTH NEW YORK. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED SOUTHEAST FROM THIS LOW OVER CONNECTICUT. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM THE LOW TO ANOTHER DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER MISSOURI. WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ALREADY IN PLACE OVER THE LOCAL REGION...PARTIAL AFTERNOON SUNSHINE ALONG WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL SET THE STAGE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STARTING THIS AFTERNOON. AS THE LOW OVER NEW YORK MOVES NORTHEAST...THE COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE COAST SLOWLY AND BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE COAST DURING THURSDAY AS THE SECOND LOW ADVANCES TOWARD THE REGION. THIS COMBINATION OF EVENTS WILL PRODUCE UNSETTLED WEATHER THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL TOTALS UP TO 1/2 TO 1 INCH ARE PREDICTED ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY...SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING RAINFALL OF 1 AND 1/2 INCHES OVER THE AREAS THEY PASS AND MIGH CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. ADDITIONALLY...MINOR COASTAL FLOODING WAS REPORTED WITH THE OCCURRENCE OF HIGH TIDE THIS MORNING IN MANASQUAN OF SOUTHERN MONMOUTH COUNTY. ALTHOUGH TIDE ANOMALIES ARE LESS THAN 1 FOOT ABOVE NORMAL...WITH THE NEW MOON OCCURRING YESTERDAY...ASTRONOMICAL VALUES ARE HIGHEST TODAY FOR THE MONTH OF MAY. ADDITIONAL MINOR COASTAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THE OCCURRENCE OF THE NEXT HIGH TIDES ACROSS THE LOCAL COASTAL AREAS. GTC "
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Monmouth | 65 min |
| May 25, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hunterdon, Somerset | 59 min |
| May 25, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Middlesex | 66 min |
| May 25, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 67 min |
| May 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 55 min |
| May 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 55 min |
| May 25, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 57 min |
| May 25, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 62 min |
| May 25, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region | 27 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.