Alert archive / Connecticut / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2009, 5:14 PM EDT for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 26, 2009, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2009, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 5:50 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | 2 Sw Jewett City, CT |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
WFUS51 KOKX 262114
TOROKX
CTC011-262145-
/O.NEW.KOKX.TO.W.0003.090626T2114Z-090626T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
514 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN NEW LONDON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT...
* AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
COLCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
LEBANON BY 520 PM...
NORWICH BY 540 PM...
6 MILES NORTH OF GALES FERRY BY 545 PM...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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.
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 4144 7209 4160 7242 4161 7242 4161 7241
4160 7239 4160 7237 4160 7234 4165 7233
4166 7228 4169 7228 4166 7215 4163 7196
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 289DEG 29KT 4162 7235
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KOKX 262138
SVSOKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
538 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009
CTC011-262145-
/O.CON.KOKX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090626T2145Z/
NEW LONDON CT-
538 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL NEW LONDON COUNTY...
AT 537 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR FRANKLIN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.
&&
LAT...LON 4156 7209 4162 7224 4167 7221 4166 7215
4163 7196
TIME...MOT...LOC 2137Z 282DEG 25KT 4163 7210
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 48 min |
| 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, 5:17 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 |
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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.