Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1993, 5:48 PM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1993, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1993, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBDR 112149 RRA SVRBDR CTC007-112230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRIDGEPORT CT 548 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BRIDGEPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ...MIDDLESEX COUNTY AT 545 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AND HOUR. 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.
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, May 11, 4:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
NYZ014>017-023-024-NJZ001-005-007-015-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT-THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 440 PM EDT THU MAY 11 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY... REPORTS FROM SPOTTERS HAVE INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING IN A SOUTHEASTLY DIRECTION ACROSS ROCKLAND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES OF NEW YORK STATE. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO ENTERING NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. THE THREAT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL A COLD FRONT PRESENTLY OVER NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE MOVES SOUTH OF THE REGION REACHING THE COASTAL WATERS BY ABOUT 9 PM. GSK
Special weather statement, May 11, 4:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
NYZ014>017-023-024-NJZ001-005-007-015-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT-THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 440 PM EDT THU MAY 11 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY... REPORTS FROM SPOTTERS HAVE INDICATED THAT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING IN A SOUTHEASTLY DIRECTION ACROSS ROCKLAND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES OF NEW YORK STATE. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO ENTERING NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. THE THREAT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL A COLD FRONT PRESENTLY OVER NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE MOVES SOUTH OF THE REGION REACHING THE COASTAL WATERS BY ABOUT 9 PM. GSK
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.