Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1997, 7:10 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 35 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 3, 1997, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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, 11.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KNYC 032318
SVRNYC
CTC001-032345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
710 PM EDT THU JUL 3 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT
...NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
COMPLEX APPROACHING DANBURY CONNECTICUT AT 7:10PM AND MOVING EAST. THE
STORM WILL ENTER THE DANBURY AREA AROUND 7:20 PM. EXPEC
T TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS...DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING THROUGH THIS TIME.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
FCORRECTION TO REMOVE COASTAL WATERS.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, Jul 3, 3:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-040200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 330 PM EDT THU JUL 3 1997 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION UNTIL 10 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING ACROSS CENTRAL NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. THESE SHOWERS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TRI-STATE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. AFTERWARDS...SKIES WILL CLEAR OUT...WITH A DRYING WEST WIND DEVELOPING. ON THE LATEST WEATHER MAPS...THE LEADING EDGE OF DRIER AND A BIT COOLER AIR...WAS POISED ACROSS WESTERN NEW YORK STATE. THIS COLD FRONT WAS MOVING EVER SO SLOWLY EASTWARD. A WEAK DISTURBANCE WAS PRODUCING THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE INTERIOR AND THIS REGION WILL PASS THROUGH THIS EVENING. MEANWHILE THE COLD FRONT WON/T PASS THROUGH UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT. IT COULD BRING IN A FEW SHOWERS...BUT NOT UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. SO THE FOURTH OF JULY SHOULD SEE A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS...AND A BRISK WEST WIND. BUT THE THUNDERSTORMS OF TODAY COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WIND AND HAIL. ADDITIONALLY...THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD PRODUCE VERY POOR VISIBILITY AND LOCALIZED FLOODING AND PONDING ON STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IN THE MEANTIME...KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND AN EAR TO THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS...STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THREATENING WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. WOOLDRIDGE
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-040200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 330 PM EDT THU JUL 3 1997 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION UNTIL 10 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING ACROSS CENTRAL NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. THESE SHOWERS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TRI-STATE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. AFTERWARDS...SKIES WILL CLEAR OUT...WITH A DRYING WEST WIND DEVELOPING. ON THE LATEST WEATHER MAPS...THE LEADING EDGE OF DRIER AND A BIT COOLER AIR...WAS POISED ACROSS WESTERN NEW YORK STATE. THIS COLD FRONT WAS MOVING EVER SO SLOWLY EASTWARD. A WEAK DISTURBANCE WAS PRODUCING THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE INTERIOR AND THIS REGION WILL PASS THROUGH THIS EVENING. MEANWHILE THE COLD FRONT WON/T PASS THROUGH UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT. IT COULD BRING IN A FEW SHOWERS...BUT NOT UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. SO THE FOURTH OF JULY SHOULD SEE A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS...AND A BRISK WEST WIND. BUT THE THUNDERSTORMS OF TODAY COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WIND AND HAIL. ADDITIONALLY...THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD PRODUCE VERY POOR VISIBILITY AND LOCALIZED FLOODING AND PONDING ON STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IN THE MEANTIME...KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND AN EAR TO THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS...STATEMENTS ADND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THREATENING WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. WOOLDRIDGE
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-040200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER MAP DISCUSSION FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 335 PM EDT THU JUL 3 1997...CORRECTED... ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION UNTIL 10 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING ACROSS CENTRAL NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. THESE SHOWERS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TRI-STATE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. ON THE LATEST WEATHER MAPS...THE LEADING EDGE OF DRIER AND A BIT COOLER AIR...WAS POISED ACROSS WESTERN NEW YORK STATE. THIS COLD FRONT WAS MOVING EVER SO SLOWLY EASTWARD. A WEAK DISTURBANCE WAS PRODUCING THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE INTERIOR AND THIS REGION WILL PASS THROUGH THIS EVENING. MEANWHILE THE COLD FRONT WON/T PASS THROUGH UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT. IT COULD BRING IN A FEW SHOWERS...BUT NOT UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. SO THE FOURTH OF JULY SHOULD SEE A MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS...AND A BRISK WEST WIND. BUT THE THUNDERSTORMS OF TODAY COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WIND AND HAIL. ADDITIONALLY...THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD PRODUCE VERY POOR VISIBILITY AND LOCALIZED FLOODING AND PONDING ON STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THE POTENTIAL ALSO EXISTS FOR THE FORMATION OF TORNADOS. REMEMBER THIS IS ONLY A WATCH...A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR THE FORMATION OF WEATHER. A WARNING MEANS THAT THE WEATHER IS OCCURRING OR IMMENENT. IN THE MEANTIME...KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND AN EAR TO THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS...STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THREATENING WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. WOOLDRIDGE
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.