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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Passaic County, New Jersey, 2008

14 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Passaic County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
14
Busiest month
June8 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 11, 20083 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

7 of 14 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Passaic County in 2008 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 7 of 8 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 13 minutes after it went out.

Passaic County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings14750%888%13 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS New York, NY: severe thunderstorm warnings1537452%19978%21 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 27, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX19 min
Jun 8, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX32 min
Jun 10, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX43 min
Jun 10, 8:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX34 min
Jun 10, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX21 min
Jun 16, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX28 min
Jun 16, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX51 min
Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX30 min
Jun 22, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX42 min
Jul 23, 10:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX51 min
Aug 11, 10:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX45 min
Aug 11, 10:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX46 min
Aug 11, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX51 min
Aug 15, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX47 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.