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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY

May 31, 2002Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2002, 7:16 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 44 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 31, 2002, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2002-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2002-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 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
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 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.

951 
WFUS51 KALY 312316
TORALY
CTC005-010000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
716 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 713 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF NEW MILFORD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF
  PAWLING...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BETHLEHEM VILLAGE AND WOODBURY CENTER AT 725 PM EDT
  OAKVILLE AT 730 PM EDT
  TERRYVILLE AND THOMASTON AT 735 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
$$

LAT...LON 4164 7359 4147 7355 4155 7263 4177 7267

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region66 min
May 31, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region65 min
May 31, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region44 min
May 31, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region62 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.