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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS New York, NY

June 16, 1991Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1991, 5:49 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1991, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1991, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1991-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 252 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1991-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXMorris, Passaic49 min
Jun 16, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBergen36 min
Jun 16, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland, Westchester59 min
Jun 16, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region64 min
Jun 16, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region66 min
Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region61 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.