As a line of severe thunderstorms moved east, it produced high winds that downed numerous trees and wires in Union and power lines in both West Orange and Bayonne.
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The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
As a line of severe thunderstorms moved east, it produced high winds that downed numerous trees and wires in Union and power lines in both West Orange and Bayonne.
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 Jun 27, 1:45 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 245 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 ZONES ALREADY SENT OUT TO ACCOUNT FOR SPC WATCH WHICH INCLUDES THE LOWER HUDSON VLY...NE NJ AND METRO NY. CONNECTICUT AND SUFFOLK COUNTY ZONES LEFT OUT. HERE WE GO AGAIN. WHAT LITTLE CAP THERE WAS HAS ERODED ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WITH SFC BASED LI/S IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF -9 AND THE 12Z OKX SOUNDING 3389 J/KG CAPES UNMODIFIED. NEEDLESS TO STAY MDT TO HIGH INSTABILITY IN PLACE WITH THE LOW-LEVEL FOCUS ONCE AGAIN IN THE FORM OF A LEE TROF OVER E CNTRL PA. DEVELOPING CONVECTION SHOULD MOVE INTO WRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. EXPECT A RATHER ACTIVE NIGHT WITH THE FIRST BATCH OF CONVECTION ENDING THIS EVENING... AND THEN GIVING WAY TO AN ORGANIZED LINE/MCS TYPE SYS IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. BOTH THE UPR TROF AND RRQ OF THE 300 MB JET COINCIDE WITH THE PRE-FRONTAL TROF/SFC CDFNT...WHICH MOVES THROUGH THE REGION BETWEEN 6Z AND 14Z FRI. THE SLOW MOVEMENT ATTRIBUTED TO ADDITIONAL SHORT WAVE ENERGY DIGGING DOWN THE BACKSIDE OF THE TROF. IN FACT...THE BASE OF THE TROF DOES NOT MOVE OFF THE COAST UNTIL AROUND 00Z SAT. SO CLOUDS WILL LINGER A WHILE FRI MRNG WITH A WDLY SCT SHRA POSSIBLY CLIPPING THE EAST END OF LI AND ERN CT. NW FLOW AND WEAK CAA ON FRI SHOULD STILL ALLOW THE MERCURY TO RISE TO ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS WITH COASTAL AREAS HEATING UP AS WELL. BUILDING HEIGHTS ALOFT AND SFC HI PRES MOVE IN FOR THE WEEKEND. WHILE THE AIRMASS WILL BE DRIER... TEMPS WILL STILL BE ABOVE NORMAL WITH RIDGING ALOFT AND ADIABATIC HEATING. NIGHTS WILL BE CONSIDERABLY COOLER AND MORE COMFORTABLE. NGM MOS TEMPS REASONABLE WITH MINOR ADJUSTMENTS MADE....SPECIFICALLY TO ACCOUNT FOR MORE COOLING FRI NIGHT INTO SAT MRNG. MARINE: SCA REMAINS UP ON THE OCEAN FOR ROUGH SEAS. BUOY 44025 REMAINS AT 5 FT. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE FOLLOWING FRONTAL PASSAGE FRIDAY MORNING. .OKX... CT...NONE. NJ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY UNTIL 8 PM. NY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...EXCEPT SUFFOLK COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM. MARINE...SCA FOR ROUGH SEAS ANZ350-353-355.
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:54 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
As a severe thunderstorm moved rapidly east, it produced high winds that downed trees and wires in both Plainfield and Union.
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, June 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: 5301493, 5301494, 5301495, 5301496.