Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 503
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 1997, 2:00 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1997, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Barnstable County, MA, Berkshire County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Carbon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Pike County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 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.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 48 min |
| Jun 22, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent, Washington | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 38 min |
| Jun 22, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Newport | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Massachusetts, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Connecticut, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.