Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 1994, 10:20 PM EDT for Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 1994, 10:20 PM EDT (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 1994, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monmouth County, NJ
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 220224 TORNYC NJC025-220315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1020 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW JERSEY ...MONMOUTH COUNTY AT 1010 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY NEAR ALLENTOWN. IT WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. EY
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Aug 21, 5:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 515 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THE TRI-STATE AREA EXCEPT SUFFOLK COUNTY NEW YORK... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM WESTERN CONNECTICUT...THROUGH THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...AND CONTINUES INTO EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO LOCATED IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY AND IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. SOME STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. EKH
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 5:18 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 515 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THE TRI-STATE AREA EXCEPT SUFFOLK COUNTY NEW YORK... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM WESTERN CONNECTICUT...THROUGH THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...AND CONTINUES INTO EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO LOCATED IN CENTRAL NEW JERSEY AND IN THE NEW YORK CITY AREA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. SOME STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. EKH
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 6:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
CTZ005>007-009>011-212330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT. 645 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY AND NEW HAVEN COUNTY BETWEEN DANBURY AND WATERBURY. AT 635 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST OVER NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST CELLS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN DANBURY AND WATERBURY. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOWLYING AREAS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IF YOU LIVE IN NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY FROM DANBURY TO WATERBURY... SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION AND REMAIN CLEAR OF STANDING WATER IN ON STREETS AND LOWLYING AREAS. WALKER
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 6:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 645 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THE TRI-STATE AREA EXCEPT SUFFOLK COUNTY NEW YORK... AREAS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED OVER WESTERN CONNECTICUT...THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...NEW YORK CITY...WESTERN LONG ISLAND...MOST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...AS WELL AS THE COASTAL WATERS OFF NEW JERSEY AND WESTERN LONG ISLAND. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS INDICATED BY RADAR AT THE PRESENT TIME IN THE LOCAL AREA...HOWEVER SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. EKH
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 11:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Middlesex | 25 min |
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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.