Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 4:34 PM EDT for Westchester County, New York. It was in force for 86 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 8, 1996, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:19 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Ossining, NY |
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
359 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0927 AM STAMFORD CT WIND DAMAGE
07/08/96 FAIRFIELD POWER LINES DOWNED ON
RIVER BANK RD BY TSTM
WINDS
0930 AM GREENBURGH NY
07/08/96 WESTCHESTER *** 1 INJ ***
FEMALE STRUCK AND INJURED
BY LIGHTNING ON ROUTE 119
0934 AM NORWALK CT WIND DAMAGE
07/08/96 FAIRFIELD POWER LINES DOWNED
0305 PM PORT JERVIS NY .5 INCH HAIL
07/08/96 ORANGE
0318 PM PORT JERVIS NY WIND DAMAGE
07/08/96 ORANGE J TREES DOWN AND STREET
FLOODING
REYNOLDSThe office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Orange | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 4:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Westchester | 86 min |
| Jul 8, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Union | 116 min |
| Jul 8, 9:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.