Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS New York, NY

July 24, 1999Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1999, 3:38 PM EDT for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 62 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 24, 1999, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1999, 4:40 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1999-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 541 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1999-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KNYC 241939 RRA
SVRNYC
CTC009-242040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
338 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT...

* UNTIL 440 PM EDT...

* AT 334 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN UPTON
  NY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF SOUTHBURY
  ... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...
  PROSPECT...
  CHESHIRE...

  HAMDEN...
  NORTH HAVEN...
  WALLINGFORD...
  MERIDEN...
  BRANFORD...

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

.END/EKSTER/KLEIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXNaugatuck Valley Planning Region38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.