Alert archive / Connecticut / Tornado Warnings in 1997

Tornado Warning 1, NWS New York, NY

May 6, 1997Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1997, 2:40 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley 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: May 6, 1997, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1997, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 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.

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 061841 RRA
TORNYC
CTC009-001-061915-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
240 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
IN SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
AT 235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR BRIDGEPORT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST AND BE NORTH
OF MILFORD IN NEW HAVEN COUNTY BY 300 PM OR SO.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE VBLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	67 min
May 6, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	57 min
May 6, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	55 min
May 6, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	69 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.