Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1997, 6:05 PM EDT for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 70 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 16, 1997, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1997, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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, 10.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KNYC 162205 RRA SVRNYC CTC009-162315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 605 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ...NEW HAVEN COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NEW HAVEN COUNTY AFTER 615 PM. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING QUICKLY AT 40 MPH AND HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND HAIL. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WI ND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PW
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, Aug 16, 3:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 336 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND FAIRFIELD AND NEW HAVEN COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT UNTIL 9PM... ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY METRO AREAS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... THE LEADING EDGE OF HOT...HAZY AND HUMID AIR...A WARM FRONT MOVED NORTH OF THE REGION OVERNIGHT. THIS PUT THE TRI-STATE REGION IN A TROPICAL AIRMASS. AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED WITH A TROPICAL AIRMASS... IT WAS HOT AND MUGGY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED ACROSS INTERIOR NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAD VERY STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ADDITIONALLY ALL OF THEM HAD PRODUCED COPIOUS LIGHTNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT ACROSS MOST OF THE TRI-STATE THROUGH 9PM. CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM. DEW POINTS...WHICH ARE A MEASURE OF ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY...WILL BE IN THE MID 70S AGAIN ON SUNDAY WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION. THIS WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES ANYWHERE FROM 95 TO 105 DEGREES SUNDAY AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT HEAT INDEX VALUES WONT BE MUCH BELOW 80 DEGREES. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS...EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT SEVERE ARE STILL DANGEROUS BECAUSE OF THE LIGHTNING THEY PRODUCE. USE COMMON SENSE AND GET IN OUT OF THE RAIN IF YOU GET CAUGHT IN A THUNDERSTORM. WOOLDRIDGE
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 3:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 336 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND FAIRFIELD AND NEW HAVEN COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT UNTIL 9PM... ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY METRO AREAS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... THE LEADING EDGE OF HOT...HAZY AND HUMID AIR...A WARM FRONT MOVED NORTH OF THE REGION OVERNIGHT. THIS PUT THE TRI-STATE REGION IN A TROPICAL AIRMASS. AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED WITH A TROPICAL AIRMASS... IT WAS HOT AND MUGGY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED ACROSS INTERIOR NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAD VERY STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ADDITIONALLY ALL OF THEM HAD PRODUCED COPIOUS LIGHTNING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT ACROSS MOST OF THE TRI-STATE THROUGH 9PM. CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM. DEW POINTS...WHICH ARE A MEASURE OF ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY...WILL BE IN THE MID 70S AGAIN ON SUNDAY WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION. THIS WILL PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES ANYWHERE FROM 95 TO 105 DEGREES SUNDAY AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT HEAT INDEX VALUES WONT BE MUCH BELOW 80 DEGREES. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS...EVEN IF .THEY ARE NOT SEVERE ARE STILL DANGEROUS BECAUSE OF THE LIGHTNING THEY PRODUCE. USE COMMON SENSE AND GET IN OUT OF THE RAIN IF YOU GET CAUGHT IN A THUNDERSTORM. WOOLDRIDGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 68 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.