Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS New York, NY

October 21, 1995Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 21, 1995, 11:46 AM EDT for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 21, 1995, 11:46 AM EDT (15:46 UTC)
Expired
Oct 21, 1995, 12:30 PM EDT
In force
44 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 15:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 572 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 12:00Z on 1995-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 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
572 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 211550 RRA
SVRNYC
CTC009-NYZ502-211630-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1146 AM EDT SAT OCT 21 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...NEW HAVEN COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
      ...FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS AROUND
 
 
   ... CENTRAL LONG ISLAND SOUND
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING RAPIDILY ACROSS LONG ISLAND SOUND TOWARD
NEW HAVEN COUNTY AND WILL REACH THE NEW HAVEN AREA BY NOON. THIS STORM
IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 45 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG
GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BULSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS
QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
MCKILLOP

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.