Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS New York, NY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 50 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.