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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS New York, NY

September 13, 2022Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2022, 5:38 PM EDT for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 13, 2022, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 13, 2022, 6:09 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 13, 4:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 4:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 3:27 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 13, 1:38 PM EDT, 4 hours before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 4:56 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 5:25 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 13, 12:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Kings, New York, Richmond	3 hr
Sep 13, 12:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens	3 hr
Sep 13, 3:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Bronx, Westchester	3 hr
Sep 13, 4:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Richmond	2 hr
Sep 13, 4:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond	117 min
Sep 13, 4:35 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	OKX	Kings, Queens	10 min
Sep 13, 4:36 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		11 min
Sep 13, 4:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau, Queens	51 min
Sep 13, 5:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Nassau, Queens	2 hr
Sep 13, 6:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Suffolk	3 hr
Sep 13, 8:07 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	OKX	Nassau	5 hr
Sep 13, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Westchester	34 min
Sep 12, 10:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Essex, Union	3 hr
Sep 13, 3:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	OKX	Essex, Union	74 min
Sep 13, 5:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	3 hr
Sep 13, 6:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	3 hr
Sep 13, 7:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OKX	Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region	3 hr
Sep 13, 8:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		23 min
Sep 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX		50 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.