Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1994, 4:08 PM EDT for Nassau County, New York. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1994, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nassau County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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, Jul 8, 12:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
NYZ067>81-NJZ001>014-081800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1245 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 1994 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER WARREN AND SUSSEX COUNTIES OF NEW JERSEY...AND OVER ORANGE COUNTY NEW YORK...AS WELL AS SULLIVAN COUNTY NEW YORK AND EXTREME NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...PARTICULARLY PIKE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST CELLS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ORANGE COUNTY NEAR WARWICK...AND OVER SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY NEAR PHILIPSBURG. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS ORANGE...SUSSEX...AND WARREN COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. EY
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
CTZ005-010-081915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 225 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CONNECTICUT UNTIL 800 PM... AT 220 PM...RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST WEST OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCLUDING THE GREENWICH...STAMFORD...AND DANBURY AREAS BETWEEN 230 AND 300 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE ASSOCIATED THE THE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BINGHAM
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:15 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
CTZ005-010-081945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 315 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CONNECTICUT UNTIL 800 PM... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWEST FAIRFIELD COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE GREENWICH AND STAMFORD AREAS HAVE DECREASED CONSIDERABLY IN INTENSITY AND ARE NO LONGER A SEVERE THREAT. BINGHAM
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:18 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
CTZ005-010-081945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 315 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CONNECTICUT UNTIL 800 PM... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNI2NG FOR SOUTHWEST FAIRFIELD COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE GREENWICH AND STAMFORD AREAS HAVE DECREASED CONSIDERABLY IN INTENSITY AND ARE NO LONGER A SEVERE THREAT. BINGHAM
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 4:01 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
NYZ067>81-NJZ001>014-082100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 400 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 1994 DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ACCOMPANYING THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WERE MOVING RAPIDLY ACROSS THE GREATER NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS MOVING INTO NASSAU COUNTY. BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES WILL LIKELY FALL IN SPOTS IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORM lACTIVITY CURRENTLY OCCURRING AROUND THE FORECAST AREA...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EXTREME EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THEY WERE MOVUNG EAST ANBD WILL SOON BE OVER WARREN COUNTY NEW JERSEY. SO IT IS NOT OVER YET. EY
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Warren | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hudson | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 3:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx, Westchester | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Westchester | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Rockland | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 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.