Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2012, 1:12 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 23 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
- Sep 8, 2012, 1:12 PM EDT (17:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2012, 1:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 11:18 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
015
WUUS51 KOKX 081712
SVROKX
CTC001-009-081745-
/O.NEW.KOKX.SV.W.0076.120908T1712Z-120908T1745Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
112 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...
NORTHWESTERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 145 PM EDT...
* AT 110 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 NEWTOWN...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SOUTHBURY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT
IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO COULD DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS
SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
&&
LAT...LON 4157 7310 4131 7331 4139 7352 4153 7345
4150 7343 4152 7339 4149 7337 4148 7333
4150 7333 4151 7332 4152 7327 4152 7317
4155 7317
TIME...MOT...LOC 1712Z 205DEG 29KT 4144 7336
$$
GOODMAN1 follow-up statement
455
WWUS51 KOKX 081735
SVSOKX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
135 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2012
CTC001-009-081744-
/O.CAN.KOKX.SV.W.0076.000000T0000Z-120908T1745Z/
NEW HAVEN CT-FAIRFIELD CT-
135 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FAIRFIELD AND NORTHWESTERN NEW
HAVEN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS MOVED INTO LITCHFIELD COUNTY...WHERE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM.
LAT...LON 4157 7310 4131 7331 4139 7352 4153 7345
4150 7343 4152 7339 4149 7337 4148 7333
4150 7333 4151 7332 4152 7327 4152 7317
4155 7317
TIME...MOT...LOC 1734Z 205DEG 29KT 4160 7326
$$
GOODMANThe office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 11:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 59 min | |
| Sep 8, 11:54 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 12:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 59 min | |
| Sep 8, 12:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 22 min |
| Sep 8, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 62 min | |
| Sep 8, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 32 min |
| Sep 8, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 36 min |
| Sep 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 30 min |
| Sep 8, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 86 min |
| Sep 8, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 64 min |
| Sep 8, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region | 38 min |
| Sep 8, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.