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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS New York, NY

July 9, 1996Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
61 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 23:03 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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 1996-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 210 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 1996-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 092300
SVRNYC
CTC009-100000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
659 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...NEW HAVEN COUNTY
 
AT 658 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH CENTRAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY MOVING INTO WESTERN NEW
HAVEN COUNTY.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING
SEYMOUR SHORTLY.
 
 
GOUDSWARD/HOGAN
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRU0CTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Jul 9, 3:14 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-100200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...
NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
313 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8:00 THIS EVENING FOR
ALL OF NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK INCLUDING NEW
YORK CITY...

...SUFFOLK COUNTY NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT ARE NOT INCLUDED
IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...

ON THE WEATHER MAP...A COLD FRONT CURVING FROM CENTRAL NEW YORK
STATE INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WILL CONTINUE TO APPROACH THE REGION.
AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING. SOME
OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE RESULTING IN STRONG WINDS...
LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. RESIDENTS WHO ARE
NOT UNDER THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAY STILL EXPERIENCE SOME
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING.

SUNSHINE ACROSS THE REGION EARLIER TODAY HAS HELPED TO DESTABILIZE
THE ATMOSPHERE...IN ADDITION SEVERAL OTHER FACTORS ARE COMING INTO
PLAY THAT COULD LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROUGH AND TUMBLE WEATHER.
IF YOU HAVE OUTDOOR OR TRAVEL PLANS FOR THIS AFTERNOON...LISTEN TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FREQUENTLY TO MONITOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS.

PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK RECEIVED
ANYWHERE FROM 1 TO AS MUCH AS 3 INCHES OF RAIN DURING MONDAY/S
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS
COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A QUICK REACTING
CREEK OR RIVER...STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECASTS ON THE RAIN.

OTHER AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS...LOW LYING
AREAS AND AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH.

THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION DURING THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS EFFECTIVELY ENDING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER
BUT LEFTOVER SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE FOR A WHILE. HIGH PRESSURE WILL
THEN BUILD INTO THE AREA BRINGING CLEARING SKIES...DRIER AIR WITH
LOWER HUMIDITIES.

WEDNESDAY WILL FEATURE A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE
JUST A FEW DEGREES SHY OF WHERE THEY SHOULD BE FOR THIS TIME OF THE
YEAR.

GOUDSWARD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region58 min
Jul 9, 6:46 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region29 min
Jul 9, 7:06 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region69 min
Jul 9, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.