3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 19, 2:00 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 300 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2002 UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVR THE AREA WITH SCTD CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ACRS THE LWR HUDSON VALLEY INTO NWRN CT WHERE FNTL BOUNDARY LIES. WEAK SFC LO REMAINS OVR THE AREA. TSTMS PRODUCING RAIN...SOME HVY...NOT EXPECTING ANY TSTMS TO BE SVR. MODLES CONSISTANT WITH MOVG THE SFC WAVE SLOWLY TO THE ENE TNGT WITH THE FNTL BOUNDARY SINKING THRU THE AREA. AVN KPS LO PRES ALNG THE MID ATLC CST INTO SAT WITH MEASURABLE PCPN. HAVE LEANED TWD NGM/ETA AND MVG PCPN OUT BY 04Z TO 05Z WITH CLRG. PROBLEM TNGT WL BE HOW DENSE FOG GETS ESPLY ACRS ERN LI. VSBY SAT STILL SHOWING THE STATUS JUST OFF THE CST. DEVLOPING WEAK NE FLOW AND WITH ANY PCPN COULD DEVLOP AREAS OF DENSE FOG. WITH LIGHT WINDS ACRS RGN AND ANY PCPN PATCHY FOG POSSIBLE AND WL MENTION ALL ZONES. MARINE: NO PROBLEMS WITH THE SEAS AND WINDS THRU THE PD. REDUCED VSYS THIS EVENING IN TSTMS AND LATE TNGTH IN FOG. CT...NONE. NY...NONE. NJ...NONE. MARINE...NONE.
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:30 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter reported that severe thunderstorm winds knocked over a 12 inch diameter tree.
Law Enforcement reported that thunderstorm high winds downed tree limbs.
A spotter reported a tree down and power outages along Route 1.
A spotter reported up to one foot of water across most of Route 8 at Exit 16 in Shelton, which resulted in traffic limited to one lane.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Connecticut in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Connecticut, July 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5301577, 5301580, 5301578, 5301579.