Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2004, 5:17 PM EDT for Bergen County, New Jersey. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 1, 2004, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 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 21:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
840 WFUS51 KOKX 012117 TOROKX NJC003-012200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 517 PM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HACKENSACK...BERGENFIELD...PARAMUS * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 516 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER ORADELL...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF RIDGEWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ORADELL AROUND 525 PM BERGENFIELD AND NORWOOD AROUND 530 PM ENGLEWOOD AROUND 535 PM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT LEE AROUND 545 PM THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4105 7404 4092 7413 4081 7398 4100 7390
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Union | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 41 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.