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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS New York, NY

June 2, 2000Bergen County, Passaic County, New Jersey; Rockland County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT for Bergen County, Passaic County, New Jersey; Rockland County, New York. It was in force for 40 min. 4 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: Jun 2, 2000, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bergen County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Rockland County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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
Jun 2, 7:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	West Milford, NJ
Jun 2, 7:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Little Ferry, NJ
Jun 2, 7:06 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Hillburn, NY
Jun 2, 7:12 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 M	Hillsdale, 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 2, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KOKX 022251
SVRNYC
NJC003-031-NYC087-022330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
650 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

  IN NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY...
     PASSAIC...
     BERGEN...

  IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK STATE...
     ROCKLAND...

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT...

* AT 650 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE 
  FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SLOATSBURG TO 7 MILES WEST OF WEST
  MILFORD.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE IN
  THE VICINITY OF...
  WEST MILFORD AROUND 700 PM...
  RINGWOOD AROUND 710 PM...
  BLOOMINGDALE...SLOATSBURG AROUND 715 PM...
  POMPTON LAKES AROUND 720 PM...
  WAYNE AROUND 725 PM...
  HAWTHORNE...RAMSEY...RIDGEWOOD AROUND 730 PM...

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF 3/4 INCH AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE 
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.

$$

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN UPTON NY.

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.

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
240 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

SEVERE WX EXPTD ACRS PORTIONS OF FA LT THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVENING
AS SQLN APPROACHES. PRIMARY THREAT STILL APPEARS WL BE DAMAGING
WND GUSTS ALTHO TORRENTIAL RAINS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLG
SEEMS LKLY.

OTRW...BASICALLY STILL LOOKG FOR UNCOMFORTABLE HEAT AND HUMIDITY TO
GIVE WAY TO CONSIDERABLY COOLER AND DRIER WX THIS WEEKEND.

A SPECIAL 18Z SOUNDG IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING TAKEN.

MARINE...WNDS SHLD RCH SCA CRIT BY A BIT LTR THIS EVENING AS GRAD
TIGHTENS SO SCA WL CONT.

WRKZFP NOT AVBL ATTM. SVR TSTM WATCH MAY NOT BE ISSUED UNTIL AROUND
4 PM EDT FOR MY FA...THIS AFT COORD WITH SPC. FEEL IT BEST TO HOLD
ZONE ISSUANCE UNTIL THAT TIME UNLESS SOMETHING ELSE COMES UP.

.OKX...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Essex, Union	66 min
Jun 2, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bergen, Hudson	66 min
Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	65 min
Jun 2, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Putnam, Westchester	56 min
Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx	52 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	New York	63 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Richmond	63 min
Jun 2, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Kings, Queens	63 min
Jun 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Nassau, Suffolk	65 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.