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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS New York, NY

May 12, 1994Sussex County, New Jersey; Orange County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1994, 12:32 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey; Orange County, New York. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1994, 12:32 PM EDT (16:32 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1994, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Orange County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 1:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXMiddlesex, Somerset, Union62 min
May 12, 1:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland, Westchester56 min

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.