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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS New York, NY

May 24, 2000Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 5:40 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 65 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 24, 2000, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.7 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-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: 573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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.

486 
WUUS51 KOKX 242143
SVRNYC
CTC001-242245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
540 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

  IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...
     FAIRFIELD...

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 540 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS..MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

* BASED ON THIS MOVEMENT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE IN
  THE VICINITY OF...
  GEORGETOWN...RIDGEFIELD AROUND 550 PM EDT...
  TRUMBULL AROUND 600 PM EDT...
  BRIDGEPORT...SHELTON...STRATFORD AROUND 605 PM EDT...
  MILFORD...ORANGE AROUND 610 PM EDT...

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...STAY INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

$$

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN UPTON NY.

LAT...LON 4135 7381 4117 7382 4103 7221 4130 7218

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.

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
230 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE FLAT UPPER TROF OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND OHIO VALLEY WILL MOVE
EAST ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY MORNING AND EAST OVER THE ATLANTIC
THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. AT THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE JUST NORTH OF
THE GREAT LAKES WILL TRACK EAST REACHING THE CANADIAN MARITIMES BY
THURSDAY NIGHT. A COLD FRONT TRAILING SOUTH FROM THE LOW WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE AREA LATE TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND TSTMS WILL PRECEDE AND
ACCOMPANY THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. A FEW OF THE TSTMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED
BY STRONG WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW
OF DRIER AIR WILL SPREAD OVER THE REGION THURSDAY AND CONTINUE INTO
FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES EAST TO THE GREAT LAKES BY FRIDAY
MORNING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE SEASONAL LEVELS
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. A SCA MAY BE NEEDED ON THURSDAY.

.OKX...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-250230-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
300 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

...THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT...

AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT AND VERY UNSTABLE AIR WILL BRING THE
THREAT FOR SOME ACTIVE WEATHER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

THE AREAS WITH THE BEST CHANCE TO RECEIVE ANY SEVERE WEATHER WOULD
BE THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...THE NEW YORK
CITY METRO AREA AND SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT FROM AROUND SUNSET UNTIL
MIDNIGHT. AS YOU GO FURTHER EAST...THE CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER
WILL LESSEN SOMEWHAT DUE TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE COOL WATERS OF LONG
ISLAND SOUND AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED OUR ENTIRE REGION IN A SLIGHT
RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL
BE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.

FOR THE LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS...PLEASE STAY TUNED TO YOUR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS.

Local storm report, May 24, 5:21 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
521 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0512 PM    WALDEN                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/00   ORANGE                         TREE DOWN IN WALDEN

0510 PM    MAYBROOK                  NY   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/00   ORANGE                         TREES AND WIRES DOWN IN
                                          MAYBROOK

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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.