Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1996, 5:14 PM EDT for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 46 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1996, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Union County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 5:22 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | West Milford, NJ | |
| May 11, 5:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Bloomfield, NJ | |
| May 11, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rahway, NJ | |
| May 11, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramsey, NJ |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 55 min |
| May 11, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Orange | 26 min |
| May 11, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 51 min |
| May 11, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 46 min |
| May 11, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 20 min |
| May 11, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 47 min |
| May 11, 6:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange, Westchester | 3 hr |
| May 11, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 40 min |
| May 11, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 35 min |
| May 11, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 62 min |
| May 11, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.