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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Albany, NY

June 16, 2002Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2002, 3:31 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 29 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
Jun 16, 2002, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
29 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 19:30 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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 2002-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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 
WFUS51 KALY 161931
TORALY
CTC005-162000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
330 PM EDT SUN JUN 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 318 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF WOODBURY CENTER...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF
  NEW MILFORD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WOODBURY CENTER AND BETHLEHEM VILLAGE AT 335 PM EDT
  OAKVILLE AT 340 EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMMEDIATELY.
SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
THE BUIDLING. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER.

$$

LAT...LON 4162 7342 4149 7325 4168 7294 4182 7306

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 2:47 PM EDTTornado WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region43 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Connecticut, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.