Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 1:24 PM EDT for Bergen County, New Jersey; Rockland County, Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1995, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1773 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 261730 RRA SVRNYC NJC003-NYC119-NYC087-261830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 124 PM EDT WED JUL 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...BERGEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...WESTCHESTER COUNTY ...EXTREME SOUTHERN ROCKLAND COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BERGEN COUNTY NJ HAS BEEN EXTENDED AND NOW INCLUDES EXTREME SOUTHERN ROCKLAND COUNTY AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY NY. THE WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR PASSAIC COUNTY NJ. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PARAMUS IN BERGEN COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TOWARDS NYACK IN SOUTHERN ROCKLAND COUNTY AT 20 TO 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL WESTCHESTER COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE STORM MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND... HAIL... AND HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE STREETS AND UNDERPASSES TO FLOOD. 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 COVERS THE ROAD. MCKILLOP
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 66 min |
| Jul 26, 1:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Westchester | 69 min |
| Jul 26, 5:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Westchester | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995Severe 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.