Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 8:01 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley 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, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KOKX 010001 SVROKX CTC001-009-010045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 801 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT NEW HAVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT * UNTIL 845 PM EDT. * AT 758 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM TRUMBULL TO WALLINGFORD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF... STRATFORD AND ORANGE AROUND 810 PM. NORTH BRANFORD AROUND 820 PM. BRANFORD AROUND 825 PM. GUILFORD AROUND 835 PM. SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BEACON FALLS...BETHANY... CHESHIRE...DERBY...HAMDEN...MONROE...NORTH HAVEN...SEYMOUR AND STEPNEY. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. $$ REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN UPTON NY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY. LAT...LON 4130 7350 4153 7284 4128 7261 4114 7318
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 31, 3:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 305 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 SCTRD TRW...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL PSBL THROUGH THIS EVE. COLD FRONT PASSES TO THE E AFTER MIDNIGHT. HI PRES THEN BUILDS IN RESULTING IN FAIR WX OVER THE WEEKEND. MARINE...SCA UP FOR ROUGH SEAS S OF LONG ISL. SEAS EXPECTED TO BUILD TO AROUND 5 FT THIS EVE. .OKX... CT...NONE. NJ...NONE. NY...NONE. MARINE...SMALL CRAFT ADVIS FOR ROUGH SEAS...ANZ350-353-355. NONE. EKH
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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.