Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1996, 5:51 PM EDT for Essex County, Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 84 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 14, 1996, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 84 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 21:54 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 14, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | West Livingston, NJ | As thunderstorms moved northeast at 35 to 40 MPH, they produced high winds that knocked down large trees. |
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, 9.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 72 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.