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Tornado Warning 1, NWS New York, NY

October 27, 2003Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 2003, 5:27 PM EST for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 33 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: Oct 27, 2003, 5:27 PM EST (22:27 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 2003, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 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 KOKX 272227
TOROKX
CTC009-272300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
527 PM EST MON OCT 27 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...NEW HAVEN...MILFORD

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 525 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A POSSIBLE DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER ORANGE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF SHELTON...  MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEW HAVEN AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF BETHANY AROUND 535 PM
  NORTH HAVEN AND HAMDEN AROUND 540 PM
  NORTH BRANFORD AND BRANFORD AROUND 545 PM
  ROCKLAND AND NORTH MADISON AROUND 555 PM

SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DERBY.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$

LAT...LON 4142 7263 4136 7263 4130 7255 4126 7295
          4122 7298 4121 7307 4126 7309 4132 7306
          4138 7310 4142 7292 4146 7282

SR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 27, 4:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	38 min
Oct 27, 5:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	54 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.