Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 2, 1996, 1:59 AM EST for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 31 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
- Dec 2, 1996, 1:59 AM EST (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 1996, 2:30 AM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2:05 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Millburn, NJ | |
| Dec 2, 2:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Little Ferry, 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 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 452 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.
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 51 minutes before
NYZ067>081-501-502-508-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-021000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 900 PM EDT SUN DEC 1 1996 ...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY TONIGHT... THE LEADING EDGE OF DRY AIR APPROACHING FROM THE WEST WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA FROM WEST TO EAST EARLY MONDAY MORNING. UNTIL THIS COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW OF VERY MOIST AIR WILL CONTINUE. WHILE NO EXTENDED PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN IS FORECAST OVERNIGHT THERE MAY BE A BRIEF PERIOD OR TWO OF HEAVIER RAIN...ESPECIALLY JUST AHEAD OF AND WITH THE FRONT ITSELF. EVEN A THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE. SO THE FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY REMAINS IN EFFECT. BRISK SOUTH WINDS WILL ALSO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. BUT THEY WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS THEY WERE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER THERE MAY BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF STRONG WIND GUSTS...POSSIBLY TO 45 MPH...ACCOMPANYING THE COLD FRONT. ONCE THE FRONT CROSSES THE AREA WE WILL DRY OUT QUICKLY...JUST IN TIME FOR THE START OF THE WORK WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ON THE MILD SIDE FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK...WITH READINGS ABOUT FIVE DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. EY
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 1:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 67 min |
| 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 | Union | 31 min |
| Dec 2, 4:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Essex | 117 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.