Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS New York, NY

July 29, 1995Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1995, 5:44 PM EDT for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1995, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1076 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 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
1076 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jul 28, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange67 min
Jul 28, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXRockland, Westchester58 min
Jul 29, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region34 min

Nearby

Severe 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.