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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS New York, NY

May 23, 2004Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 45 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 23, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 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.

487 
WUUS51 KOKX 232115
SVROKX
CTC001-232200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
514 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS EXTENDED THE 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 511 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GEORGETOWN AROUND 520 PM

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.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS WEAKLY ROTATING AND STILL COULD PRODUCE HAIL TO 
THE SIZE OF NICKELS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH 
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE NOTICE.

$$

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 1000 PM SUNDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4129 7348 4116 7350 4113 7336 4126 7330

EKSTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region	45 min
May 23, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	53 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.