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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Albany, NY

October 14, 1995Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 1995, 10:39 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Oct 14, 1995, 10:39 PM EDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 1995, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-10-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 369 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 366 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
366 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
379 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.