Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS New York, NY

May 1, 1997Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1997, 6:18 PM EDT for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 42 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
May 1, 1997, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 1997-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1997-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

675 
WUUS1 KNYC 012224
SVRNYC
CTC011-012300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
618 PM EDT THU MAY 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT

   ...NEW LONDON

AT 615 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THESE STORMS
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...

COLCHESTER...FLANDERS...CHESTERFIELD...GILMAN...LEBANON AND
NORTH FRANKLIN

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

HAYES

...CORRECTED FOR GRAMMAR...

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXLower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region40 min
May 1, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXSoutheastern Connecticut Planning Region30 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.