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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS New York, NY

May 6, 1998Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1998, 9:53 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 47 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, 1998, 9:53 PM EDT (01:53 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1998, 10:40 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 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 00:00Z on 1998-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 433 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 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 070153 RRA
SVRNYC
ANZ330-CTC001-070240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
953 PM EDT WED MAY 6 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN
  SOUTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT
  LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF A BRIDGEPORT/PORT JEFFERSON LINE
  INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN

* UNTIL 1040 PM EDT

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM
  BRIDGEPORT...   ORONOQUE...   TRUMBULL...   EASTON...   SHELTON
  AND   MONROE.

* AT 950 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN UPTON
  NY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  BRIDGEPORT MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS!

KLEIN

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.