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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS New York, NY

June 26, 1997Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1997, 2:34 PM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 56 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: Jun 26, 1997, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 261834 RRA
SVRNYC
CTC007-261930-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
234 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY MOVING SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST
AT 2:30 PM. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY
DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES UNTIL 3 PM. THEREAFTER THESE STORMS WILL MOVE
OVER THE LONG ISLAND. EXPECT TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...WIND GUSTS UP 45 MPH
...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. EXPECT SLOW TRAVEL ACROSS INTERSTATE 95 DURING
THIS TIME.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 5V8 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
NOCERA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	68 min
Jun 26, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.