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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS New York, NY

August 23, 1996Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1996, 5:23 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 52 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
Aug 23, 1996, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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 1996-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 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 1996-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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
Aug 23, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange, Putnam55 min
Aug 23, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region60 min
Aug 23, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region59 min
Aug 23, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region61 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.