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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS New York, NY

May 29, 1995Bergen County, Hudson County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 9:57 PM EDT for Bergen County, Hudson County, New Jersey. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 9:57 PM EDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 827 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 245 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
827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 300157
SVRNYC
NJC003-017-300230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
957 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY...HUDSON COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
A THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS HUDSON COUNTY AND SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY
WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER jCOVERS THE ROAD.

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 29, 9:00 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
NJZ001-002-004-007>010-NYZ067-068-300300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...EXTENDING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
900 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING SOUTHERN NEW YORK COUNTIES...ORANGE...AND PUTNAM...
AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NEW JERSEY...SUSSEX...PASSAIC...
WARREN...MORRIS...HUNTERDON...AND SOMERSET.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER REBMAINS UNTIL 1100 PM FOR THESE
COUNTIES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 9:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXEssex, Union50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.