Alert archive / Connecticut / High Wind Warnings in 2009
High Wind Warning 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this high wind warning at Mar 2, 2009, 3:17 AM EST for Suffolk County, New York; Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2009, 3:17 AM EST (08:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2009, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KOKX 020817 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 317 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009 ...DAMAGING WINDS EXPECTED EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS LONG ISLAND AND MOST OF COASTAL CONNECTICUT... CTZ010>012-NYZ077>081-021200- /O.NEW.KOKX.HW.W.0002.090302T0817Z-090302T1200Z/ SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-NASSAU- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 317 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST THIS MORNING. UPPER LEVEL ENERGY IS CAUSING STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS TO REACH THE GROUND WITH A STRONG SNOW BAND CURRENTLY STRETCHING FROM TRENTON...TO WRIGHTSTOWN TO FAR SOUTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. THIS BAND WILL REACH... NASSAU COUNTY AROUND 430 AM... WESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY AROUND 5 AM... CENTRAL SUFFOLK AND COASTAL NEW HAVEN COUNTY AROUND 545 AM... THE TWIN FORKS AND COASTAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY AROUND 615 AM... AND COASTAL NEW LONDON COUNTY AROUND 640 AM. THE BAND SHOULD CLEAR COASTAL NEW LONDON COUNTY AND THE TWIN FORKS BY 7 AM. WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH WITH SUSTAINED NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS BAND ALREADY...AND IT KNOCKED DOWN SEVERAL TREES EARLIER ON THE NORTHERN DELMARVA PENINSULA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$ MALOIT
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS71 KOKX 021156 NPWOKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 656 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009 ...STRONGEST WINDS DECREASING... CTZ010>012-NYZ077>081-021300- /O.EXP.KOKX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090302T1200Z/ SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-NASSAU- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 656 AM EST MON MAR 2 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 AM EST THIS MORNING... THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 AM EST THIS MORNING. THE IMPULSE RESPONSIBLE FOR STRONG WINDS HAS MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF THE REGION. WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE...BUT THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:52 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 113 min | |
| Mar 2, 3:08 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 97 min | |
| Mar 2, 4:48 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 117 min | |
| Mar 2, 3:59 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 37 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Connecticut, 2009High Wind Warnings in New York, 2009Every high wind warning in 2009
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.