Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1997, 9:27 PM EDT for Orange County, New York; Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 63 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
- May 19, 1997, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1997, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 9:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Middletown, NY | |
| May 19, 10:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Paterson, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
209 WUUS1 KNYC 200129 RRA SVRNYC NJC031-NYC071-200230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 927 PM EDT MON MAY 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...PASSAIC COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK ...ORANGE COUNTY AT 925 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EASTWARD AT 50 MPH INTO SUSSEX COUNTY OF NEW JERSEY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 66 min |
| May 19, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam | 58 min |
| May 19, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 60 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.