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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2026, 7:47 PM EDT for Essex County, Union County, New Jersey. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 3, 2026, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2026, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Destructive
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 80.0 mph
Counties Essex County, NJ, Union County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 912 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | New York | 26 min |
| Jul 3, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 59 min | |
| Jul 3, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, New York, Queens | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 96 min | |
| Jul 3, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Essex | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Passaic | 50 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.