Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS New York, NY

March 9, 2000Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County, New Jersey

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 8:04 PM EST for Bergen County, Essex County, Passaic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2000, 8:04 PM EST (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2000, 8:50 PM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 287 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

254 
WUUS51 KOKX 100104
SVRNYC
NJC003-013-031-100150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
804 PM EST THU MAR 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY...
  ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY...
  EASTERN PASSAIC COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY...

* UNTIL 850 PM EST...

* AT 802 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN UPTON
  NY INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STORNG GUSTY WINDS AND
HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

.END/EKH/MT

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 7:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPassaic35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.