Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2009, 4:13 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2009, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2009, 5:01 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 91 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KOKX 262013
SVROKX
CTC001-262115-
/O.NEW.KOKX.SV.W.0021.090626T2013Z-090626T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
413 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT...
* AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
SHERMAN...OR NEAR PAWLING...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SHERMAN BY 435 PM...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.
&&
LAT...LON 4165 7349 4164 7349 4151 7344 4152 7339
4149 7337 4148 7333 4147 7331 4142 7333
4148 7353 4163 7353 4167 7352 4167 7350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 280DEG 12KT 4158 7359
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KOKX 262101
SVSOKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
501 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009
CTC001-262111-
/O.CAN.KOKX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-090626T2115Z/
FAIRFIELD CT-
501 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHERN FAIRFIELD
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PUSHED SOUTH OF THE AREA...THEREFORE THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.
LAT...LON 4165 7349 4164 7349 4151 7344 4152 7339
4149 7337 4148 7333 4147 7331 4142 7333
4148 7353 4163 7353 4167 7352 4167 7350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 280DEG 12KT 4155 7337
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 5:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2009Every severe thunderstorm 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.