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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS New York, NY

December 2, 1996Orange County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 2, 1996, 1:23 AM EST for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 67 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: Dec 2, 1996, 1:23 AM EST (06:23 UTC)
Expired: Dec 2, 1996, 2:30 AM EST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Orange County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Special weather statement, Dec 1, 9:08 PM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 2, 3:31 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Rockland	3 hr
Dec 2, 1:59 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Passaic	31 min
Dec 2, 1:59 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Union	31 min
Dec 2, 1:59 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Hudson	31 min
Dec 2, 1:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic	31 min
Dec 2, 1:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Union	31 min
Dec 2, 4:33 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Essex	117 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.