Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS New York, NY

May 8, 1999Bergen County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1999, 5:44 PM EDT for Bergen County, New Jersey. It was in force for 31 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
May 8, 1999, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1999, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
31 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 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 8, 5:45 PM EDTHail 0.75Hackensack, 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.