Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1990, 8:38 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1990, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1990, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBDR 300041 RRA SVRBDR CTC001-300145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 838 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BRIDGEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...FAIRFIELD COUNTY ...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE COUNTY JUST MENTIONED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED NEAR STEWARD AIR FORCE BASE IN NEW YORK WITH GUSTS TO 106 MPH. THIS STORM WAS HEADING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD BE NEARING DANBURY CT AT THIS TIME. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. WALKER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
NJZ001-005-007-015-NYZ014>017-292330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 635 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...DO NOT USE AFTER 8 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NEW YORK CITY..NORTHERN NEW JERSEY..SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND LONG ISLAND UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF CHATHAM NEW YORK WESTWARD INTO CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY. IN THE PAST HOUR THESE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTHERN VERMONT ACROSS NEW YORK AND INTO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. MOVEMENT WAS EASTERLY AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINFGS. JG/FM
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 7:39 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
NJZ001-005-007-015-NYZ014>017-300030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 740 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...DO NOT USE AFTER 9 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NEW YORK CITY..NORTHERN NEW JERSEY..SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND LONG ISLAND UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS SULLIVAN COUNTY IN NEW YORK AND NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTHERN VERMONT ACROSS NEW YORK BETWEEN POUGHKEEPSIE AND ALBANY AND INTO EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. MOVEMENT WAS EASTSOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARxE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JG/FM
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 8:04 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
CTZALL-300200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 800 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ......A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR AND MOVE INTO NEW HAVEN COUNTY SHORTLY THEREAFTER. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST FROM HARTFORD TO DANBURY AND IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. PERSONS LIVING IN THE FAIRFIELD AND NEW HAVEN COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CLEARS YOUR AREA. WALKER
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.