Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 11:40 PM EDT for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 50 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 9, 2000, 11:40 PM EDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KOKX 100341 SVRNYC CTC007-011-100430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1140 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT... NORTHWESTERN NEW LONDON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT... * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT... * AT 1140 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF LAKE POCOTOPAUG...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * BASED ON THIS MOVEMENT...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE IN THE VICINITY OF... COLCHESTER AROUND 1155 PM EDT... LEBANON AROUND 1205 AM EDT... REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. $$ PW REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERViICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON NY. LAT...LON 4168 7266 4150 7262 4155 7209 4170 7222
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 10:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 44 min |
| May 10, 11:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 33 min |
| May 10, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region | 31 min |
| May 10, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 28 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.