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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS New York, NY

April 30, 1996Essex County, Union County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1996, 5:34 PM EDT for Essex County, Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1996, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Essex County, NJ, Union County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 364 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
364 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
428 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange56 min
Apr 30, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland, Westchester68 min
Apr 30, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPutnam68 min

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.