Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 4:20 PM EDT for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1994, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1994, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 25, 2:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 305 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NEW JERSEY AND PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK TIL 9 PM... AT 300 PM RADAR AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STILL ALONG THE MONMOUTH COUNTY NEW JERSEY COAST. SEVERAL STORM CELLS HAVE FORMED IN THIS AREA DURING THE PAST 90 MINUTES. A VERY STRONG CELL HAD FORMED AT 250 PM BETWEEN ASBURY PARK AND LONG BRANCH JUST EAST OF ROUTE 18. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE JUST OFF THE COAST OVER THE MONMOUTH COUNTY COASTAL WATERS. THESE STORMS EXTENDED NORTHEASTWARD TO JUST SOUTH OF ATLANTIC BEACH ON FIRE ISLAND. INDIVIDUAL CELLS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR AND THE AREA WAS EDGING EASTWARD SLOWLY. ALL AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD WATCH FOR THE FORMATION OR APPROACH OF STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.R WHEN STORMS APPROACH ...GET INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND OUT OF THE DANGEROUS ELEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:00 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 400 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TIL 9 PM FOR NEW JERSEY AND PART OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... THUNDERSTORMS FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL MONMOUTH COUNTY NEW JERSEY AND OVER THE NEW YORK BIGHT WATERS SOUTH OF NEW YORK CITY WERE WEAKENING AT 4 PM...ALTHOUGH THERE WERE STILL SOME STRONG CELLS JUST OFF THE MONMOUTH COUNTY COAST. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER ORANGE COUNTY NEW YORK AND SOUTHWESTWARD ALONG THE DELAWARE RIVER. SOME STORMS ALONG THIS LINE MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY AS IT MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD. THE STORM OVER WESTERN ORNAGE COUNTY APPEARED TO BE WEAKENING AT 4 PM. ALL AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SKY AND GET INSIDE A STRONG SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:01 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 400 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TIL 9 PM FOR NEW JERSEY AND PART OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... THUNDERSTORMS FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL MONMOUTH COUNTY NEW JERSEY AND OVER THE NEW YORK BIGHT WATERS SOUTH OF NEW YORK CITY WERE WEAKENING AT 4 PM...ALTHOUGH THERE WERE STILL SOME STRONG CELLS JUST OFF THE MONMOUTH COUNTY COAST. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER ORANGE COUNTY NEW YORK AND SOUTHWESTWARD ALONG THE DELAWARE RIVER. SOME STORMS ALONG THIS LINE MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY AS IT MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD. THE STORM OVER WESTERN ORNAGE COUNTY APPEARED TO BE WEAKENING AT 4 PM. ALL AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SKY AND GET INSIDE A STRONG SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:13 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 413 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT TIL 9 PM FOR NEW JERSEY AND PART OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... THUNDERSTORMS FROM OCEAN AND COASTAL MONMOUTH COUNTY NEW JERSEY AND OVER THE NEW YORK BIGHT WATERS SOUTH OF NEW YORK CITY WERE WEAKENING AT 410 PM...ALTHOUGH THERE WERE STILL SOME STRONG CELLS JUST OFF THE MONMOUTH COUNTY COAST. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER ORANGE COUNTY NEW YORK AND SOUTHWESTWARD ALONG THE DELAWARE RIVER. SOME STORMS ALONG THIS LINE MAY DEVELOP RAPIDLY AS IT MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD. ANOTHER CELL HAD RECENTLY DEVELOPED OVER THE NORTHERN NASSAU-SUFFOLK COUNTY BORDER NEAR COLD SPRING HARBOR. THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO MOVE INTO THE COASTAL WATERS OF LONG ISLAND SOUND IN THE VICINITY OF HUNTINGTON BAY. STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND QUICKLY DEVELOPING STORMS FOR A FEW MORE HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Middlesex | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Middlesex | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 41 min |
| Jul 25, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 50 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.