Alert archive / Connecticut / Tornado Warnings in 1996

Tornado Warning 2, NWS New York, NY

July 9, 1996Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 9, 1996, 6:46 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 29 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, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 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 22:46 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, 10.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 092247
TORNYC
CTC001-092315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
646 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 641 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO IN NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY...NORTH OF REDDING.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE SANDY
HOOK/BOTSSFORD AREA AND POINT EAST.
 
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR
NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
GOUDSWARD/HOGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	58 min
Jul 9, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	61 min
Jul 9, 7:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	OKX	Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	69 min
Jul 9, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region	54 min

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.