Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 5:02 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1992, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1992, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 KBDL 052103 SVRBDL CTC005-052130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 502 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY AT 500 PM EDT RADAR DETECED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN NEW YORK STATE IN THE COUNTIES OF DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND TRACK ACROSS SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY AND FAIRFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF DANBURY AND KENT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOMETIMES PRODUCE TORNADOES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Jul 5, 12:35 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
MAZALL-CTALL-RIALL-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 1230 PM EDT SUN JUL 05 1992 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY... AFTER A CLOUDY MORNING...PARTLY SUNNY SKIES WERE FINALLY DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL QUICKLY RISE INTO THE 70S ALONG THE COAST AND LOWER 80S INLAND. SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SECTIONS OF EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP AS THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION SPREADS EAST THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ACOMMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REACH EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE RAIN SHOULD HOLD OFF ON CAPE COD UNTIL THIS EVENING. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTSIDE LATER TODAY...EXPECT SOME SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS. HEDGE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 4:50 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
CTZ005-CTZ006-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 449 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR ALL OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS UNTIL 10 PM EDT... AT 445 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK STATE NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE WAS TRACKING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS APPROACHING WESTERN PORTIONS OF CONNECTICUT. IT WILL REACH THE TOWNS OF DANBURY...KENT AND SHARON BY 515 PM. RESIDENTS LIVING IN WESTERN CONNECTICUT SHOULD STAY TUNED FOR THE POSSIBLE ISSUANCE OF WARNINGS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW YORK STATE INTO LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTICUT AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS TIME NO WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT FOR CONNECTICUT OR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. HOWEVER THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THESE AREAS. KEEP IN MIND THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. SEKELSKY
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.