Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2004, 2:26 PM EDT for Bergen County, New Jersey. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 11, 2004, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2004, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 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 18:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1077 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KOKX 111826 SVROKX NJC003-111915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 226 PM EDT WED AUG 11 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 222 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUTHERFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ENGLEWOOD AND BERGENFIELD AROUND 235 PM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORADELL AROUND 240 PM SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FORT LEE...HAWTHORNE AND TETERBORO. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. $$ REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON NY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4082 7426 4075 7408 4087 7390 4106 7402
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.