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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS New York, NY

August 4, 1992Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 5:51 PM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 1992, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1992, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

NYZ014>017-023-024-NJZ001-005-007-015-042000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION
FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
AND LONG ISLAND
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
320 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NEW YORK CITY
 ...NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES OF LONG ISLAND AND ALL OF NORTHERN
 NEW JERSEY UNTIL 900 PM...

...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PUTNAM...ORANGE...ROCKLAND AND
 WESTCHESTER COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM...

A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING EAST THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON. THIS
FRONT IS COMBINING WITH AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. SOME
OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING
DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL.

THE COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP OFF THE COAST LATER THIS EVENING TAKING THE
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WITH IT. A COOL CANADIAN HIGH
PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA GIVING US CALM BUT COOLER
THAN NORMAL WEATHER.

KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

BROWN

Local storm report, Aug 4, 3:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT
330 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992

STORM REPORT FOR TUESDAY AUG 4 1992 FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT

715 AM EDT MANY TREES UPROOTED AND TORN OFF IN THE TOWN OF TRUMBULL.
       NWS BDR CONFIRMED TORNADO TOUCH DOWN OCCURRED ON SHARON STREET
       TRUMBULL CT.  NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE...NO INJURIES...TREE FELL
       INTO ONE HOUSE.  DETERMINED F1 DUE TO DAMAGE TO TREES.

730 AM EDT SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN ORANGE CONNECTICUT APPEARS FROM
       STRAIGHT LINE WIND.

715 AM EDT SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN TOWN OF EASTON  CT.

FOOSE

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

NJZ001-005-007-015-NYZ014>017-023-024-040200

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
330 PM EDT TUESDAY AUG 4 1992

...PLEASE DO NOT USE AFTER 5 PM EDT...

  ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING
     COUNTIES...ORANGE...PUTNAM...ROCKLAND...AND WESTCHESTER

  ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR
     NEW YORK CITY...NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES...AND ALL OF NEW
     JERSEY.

A CLUSTER OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE ROLLING ACROSS NEW JERSEY.
ONE STORM IS WEST OF TETERBORO WHILE ANOTHER IS NEAR PLAINFIELD.
ONE STRONG STORM IS JUST NEAR TRENTON WHICH COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AS IT MOVES ACROSS
NERCER COUNTY. A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM EXTENDED FROM
GLENFALLS NEW YORK SOUTHWESTWARD TO HARRISBURG. ELSEWHERE VERY HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

RI

Local storm report, Aug 4, 5:02 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:25 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:35 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Middlesex	43 min
Aug 4, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Monmouth	61 min
Aug 4, 6:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Rockland, Westchester	41 min
Aug 4, 6:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Putnam	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.