Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS New York, NY

June 11, 1996Essex County, Union County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 3:24 PM EDT for Essex County, Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 51 min. 2 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: Jun 11, 1996, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Essex County, NJ, Union County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 3:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Westfield, NJ
Jun 11, 3:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Millburn, 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 111927
SVRNYC
NJC013-039-112015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
324 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
 
   ...ESSEX COUNTY...UNION COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
DOPPLER RADAR INICATED THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN CENTRAL UNION
COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO
MOVE NORTH AND WILL BE ENTERING ESSEX WITHIN THE NEXT FIFTEEN MINUTES.
THE POTENTAL FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS EXISTS.
 
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.