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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS New York, NY

July 11, 1995Union County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 8:46 PM EDT for Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1995, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 1995-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 872 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 1995-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 120050 RRA
SVRNYC
NJC039-120145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
846 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...UNION COUNTY
 
AT 8:45 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MORRIS
COUNTY NEAR DOVER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO
UNION COUNTY BY 9:00 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING 3/4 INCH
HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNI
NG...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 COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
SOROKA

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 11, 8:20 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-120100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WATCH EXPIRED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
820 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR INTERIOR
SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND HAS
EXPIRED.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE
REGION...ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
UNTIL LATE TONIGHT.
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 8:26 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ001>014-120100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WATCH EXPIRED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
820 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR INTERIOR
SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND HAS
EXPIRED.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE
REGION...ALTHOUGH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
UNTIL LATE TONIGHT.

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.