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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS New York, NY

May 24, 1995Putnam County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 10:13 PM EDT for Putnam County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1995, 10:13 PM EDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Putnam County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange68 min
May 24, 9:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXPassaic47 min
May 24, 10:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region44 min
May 24, 10:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSoutheastern Connecticut Planning Region64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.