Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS New York, NY

June 26, 1997Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1997, 4:37 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 68 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, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1997, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
68 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 20:37 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, 8.6 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 1997-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 597 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1997-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 262037 RRA
SVRNYC
CTC001-262145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
437 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST
CONNECTICUT IN THE VICINITY OF NORTH GREENWICH. THIS STORM HAS A
HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND 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.
 
MCKILLOP

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

Local storm report, Jun 26, 2:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
303 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0240 PM                              CT   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/97   MIDDLESEX                      TREE LIMBS DOWN IN CENTRAL
                                          MIDDLESEX COUNTY

0252 PM    WATERFORD                 CT   45 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/97   NEW LONDON                     ESTIMATED GUST FROM
                                          SPOTTER

JST
Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
303 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0240 PM                              CT   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/97   MIDDLESEX                      TREE LIMBS DOWN IN CENTRAL
                                          MIDDLESEX COUNTY

0252 PM    WATERFORD                 CT   45 MPH TSTM GUST
06/26/97   NEW LONDON                     ESTIMATED GUST FROM
                                          SPOTTER

JST

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSoutheastern Connecticut Planning Region68 min
Jun 26, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1997Every 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.