1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 19, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 300 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002 UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVR THE AREA WITH SCTD CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ACRS THE LWR HUDSON VALLEY INTO NWRN CT WHERE FNTL BOUNDARY LIES. WEAK SFC LO REMAINS OVR THE AREA. TSTMS PRODUCING RAIN...SOME HVY...NOT EXPECTING ANY TSTMS TO BE SVR. MODLES CONSISTANT WITH MOVG THE SFC WAVE SLOWLY TO THE ENE TNGT WITH THE FNTL BOUNDARY SINKING THRU THE AREA. AVN KPS LO PRES ALNG THE MID ATLC CST INTO SAT WITH MEASURABLE PCPN. HAVE LEANED TWD NGM/ETA AND MVG PCPN OUT BY 04Z TO 05Z WITH CLRG. PROBLEM TNGT WL BE HOW DENSE FOG GETS ESPLY ACRS ERN LI. VSBY SAT STILL SHOWING THE STATUS JUST OFF THE CST. DEVLOPING WEAK NE FLOW AND WITH ANY PCPN COULD DEVLOP AREAS OF DENSE FOG. WITH LIGHT WINDS ACRS RGN AND ANY PCPN PATCHY FOG POSSIBLE AND WL MENTION ALL ZONES. MARINE: NO PROBLEMS WITH THE SEAS AND WINDS THRU THE PD. REDUCED VSYS THIS EVENING IN TSTMS AND LATE TNGTH IN FOG. CT...NONE. NY...NONE. NJ...NONE. MARINE...NONE.
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:15 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A severe thunderstorm produced high winds that downed tree limbs in Montvale. This was reported by local law enforcement.
A spotter reported dime size hail.
Brief periods of heavy rain produced by strong thunderstorms caused widespread urban flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas in Bergen County. Radar estimated rainfall rates between 1 and 2 inches per hour. Spotters reported up to 2 feet of water at the Hillsdale Toll Plaza on the Garden State Parkway. Widespread street flooding was reported in Dumont, and four cars were left underwater in a parking lot in East Rutherford after nearby swamp land flooded and another two were stuck in a rising tide on Route 17.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Jersey in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, July 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5301576, 5301501, 5301575.