Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2007, 4:14 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2007, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2007, 4:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Woodbury, CT | TREES DOWN NEAR SKI AREA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 12:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KALY 162014 SVRALY CTC005-162100- /O.NEW.KALY.SV.W.0013.070516T2014Z-070516T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 414 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODBURY CENTER...OR ABOUT NEAR SOUTHBURY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OAKVILLE BY 425 PM EDT... TERRYVILLE AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF THOMASTON BY 430 PM EDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT. LAT...LON 4160 7341 4147 7329 4165 7296 4182 7303 $$ JPV/OKEEFE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KALY 162040 SVSALY SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 441 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2007 CTC005-162051- /O.CAN.KALY.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070516T2100Z/ LITCHFIELD CT- 441 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT. LAT...LON 4160 7341 4147 7329 4165 7296 4182 7303 $$ JPV/OKEEFE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.