Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1997, 5:07 PM EDT for Bergen County, New Jersey. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 22, 1997, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1997, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bergen County, NJ
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lyndhurst, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 816 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
401 WUUS1 KNYC 222109 RRA SVRNYC NJC003-222145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 507 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY ...SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY AT 5:05 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN BERGEN COUNTY...JUST EAST OF PASSAIC IN PASSAIC COUNTY. TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN WITH THIS STORM IS PATERSON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. HAYES
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, Jun 22, 3:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 320 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE TRI-STATE REGION TIL 7 PM... THE HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE LEADING EDGE OF COOLER AND DRIER AIR...A COLD FRONT WAS IN CENTRAL NEW YORK AND WAS TRACKING TO THE EAST. WITH THE HOT AND HUMID AIR IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS HAD FORMED ALONG THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND HAIL. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH WITH THE SETTING SUN. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH OUR REGION BETWEEN 5 PM AND 8 PM. AFTER THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE THE WIND WILL BECOME NORTHWEST AND DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL BEGIN TO MOVE IN. THE LESS HUMID AIR WILL REMAIN IN PLACE FOR MONDAY...BUT BY TUESDAY...HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE ATLANTIC COAST WILL BEGIN PUMPING MORE HUMID AIR INTO THE REGION. OUR REGION COULD EXPERIENCE A FEW SHOWERS AS THE WArRM FRONT GOES THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN DURING A THUNDERSTORM. REMEMBER THE MOST DANGEROUS THING ASSOCIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM IS ITS LIGHTNING. WOOLDRIDGE
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 320 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE TRI-STATE REGION TIL 7 PM... THE HEAT ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE LEADING EDGE OF COOLER AND DRIER AIR...A COLD FRONT WAS IN CENTRAL NEW YORK AND WAS TRACKING TO THE EAST. WITH THE HOT AND HUMID AIR IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS HAD FORMED ALONG THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND HAIL. THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH WITH THE SETTING SUN. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH OUR REGION BETWEEN 5 PM AND 8 PM. AFTER THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE THE WIND WILL BECOME NORTHWEST AND DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL BEGIN TO MOVE IN. THE LESS HUMID AIR WILL REMAIN IN PLACE FOR MONDAY...BUT BY TUESDAY...HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE ATLANTIC COAST WILL BEGIN PUMPING MORE HUMID AIR INTO THE REGION. OUR REGION COULD EXPERIENCE A FEW SHOWERS AS THE WARM FRONT GOES THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN DURING A THUNDERSTORM. REMEMBER THE MOST DANGEROUS THING ASSOCIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM IS ITS LIGHTNING. WOOLDRIDGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.