Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS New York, NY

August 5, 1995Union County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 5:21 PM EDT for Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
54 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 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.4 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 506 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
506 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 052124 RRA
SVRNYC
NJC039-052215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
521 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...UNION COUNTY
 
 
AT 5.20 PM DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN
UNION COUNTY FROM NORTHEASTERN SOMSERSET COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING TOWARD
THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH TOWARD PLAINFIELD.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.