Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 308
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 18, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 39 min |
| May 18, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 40 min |
| May 18, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Warren | 45 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 24 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Queens | 24 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx | 24 min |
| May 18, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Hudson, Union | 35 min |
| May 18, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 35 min |
| May 18, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings | 35 min |
| May 18, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | New York | 35 min |
| May 18, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 54 min |
| May 18, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset | 30 min |
| May 18, 9:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Union | 2 hr |
| May 18, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr | |
| May 18, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Sussex | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Jersey, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Connecticut, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.