Thunderstorm Wind, Fairfield
- When
- May 27, 5:50 PM EST
- Where
- Fairfield County, 8 mi S of Sherman
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.450, -73.500
Damaging Wind in Connecticut, May 27, 2005
As a severe thunderstorm moved east at around 30 mph, it produced high winds that downed trees about 8 miles south of Sherman.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
As a severe thunderstorm moved east at around 30 mph, it produced high winds that downed trees about 8 miles south of Sherman.
What forecasters said that day
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 May 27, 2:55 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:55 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 355 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 .SHORT TERM (THROUGH MONDAY)... THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ATTM IS CONFINED TO NORTH CENTRAL PA AND CENTRAL NY...IN AREA OF STRONG MID-LEVEL PVA/CAA AND THE LEFT EXIT REGION OF AN APPROACHING UPPER JET. BEST OF THIS FORCING APPEARS HEADED NORTH AND WEST OF NYC INTO EARLY THIS EVENING...BUT WITH HINT OF A LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY ON VIS SATELLITE ACROSS NORTHERN NJ AROUND 18Z STILL COULD NOT RULE OUT A LOW CHANCE IN/AROUND NYC. ANY TSTMS THAT FORM COULD HAVE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL DUE TO DRY SUB-CLOUD AND MID LEVEL AIR (SURFACE TEMP/DEW DEPRESSIONS ARE RUNNING CLOSE TO 30 DEGREES) AND LOW WET-BULB ZERO HEIGHTS...BUT ONCE AGAIN THIS THREAT WILL BE MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF NYC. WX PATTERN THIS WEEKEND WILL FEATURE BROAD CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT AROUND UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR MINNESOTA AND THE UPPER GREAT LAKES. STRONG DAYTIME HEATING WILL COMBINE WITH COLD MID-LEVEL TEMPS TO CREATE STEEP LOW-LEVEL LAPSE RATES EACH AFTERNOON...AND SHORTWAVES PASSING THROUGH COULD FIRE OFF SCATTERED CONVECTION BOTH SAT AND SUN AFTERNOON. EVEN THOUGH MID-LEVELS ARE COLD (H5 TEMPS -20 TO -22C)... CAPE WILL BE MINIMAL AT BEST SO WILL MENTION ONLY ISOLATED THUNDER. SHORTWAVE RIDGE BUILDS IN FOR MONDAY...SO EXPECTING DRY WX BEFORE WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES ON TUE. TEMPS WILL RUN A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL (FOR A CHANGE) THIS WEEKEND...BUT AFTERNOON SEA BREEZES WILL KEEP MAX TEMPS IN THE 60S AT THE LONG ISLAND SOUTH SHORE BEACHES AND ALONG THE IMMEDIATE SOUTHERN CT COASTLINE. && .LONG TERM (MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...MODEL GUIDANCE SHOWS A WIDE ARRAY OF SOLUTIONS...SO FORECAST CONFIDENCE NOT VERY HIGH. HAVE FOLLOWED HPC GUIDANCE BASED MAINLY ON THE 12Z/26 ECMWF AND 06Z GFS...TAKING A WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE SOUTH/EAST OF THE AREA TUE/WED...CLOSE ENOUGH TO BRING CHANCE OF A STEADY RAIN TO THE ENTIRE AREA ON TUE AND TO EASTERN SECTIONS ON WED. HIGH PRESSURE THEN BUILDS IN FOR THU AND FRI...WITH TEMPS NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. && .AVIATION... SCATTERED CU FROM ABOUT 4000-6000 FT WILL BE IN PLACE THROUGHOUT AREA TERMINALS FOR A MAJORITY OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCAL SEABREEZE EFFECTS ON WINDS WILL ALSO BE LOST GOING INTO THIS EVENING AND WINDS WILL TURN TO MORE OF A WESTERLY FLOW THROUGHOUT. A WEAK TROUGH EXTENDING BACK THROUGH CENTRAL PA WILL MOVE TOWARDS THE AREA THIS EVENING...POSSIBLY TOUCHING OFF A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE BULK OF THE ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR MAINLY TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF NYC...AND STORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AND A FEW GUSTS TO 35 KTS. ACTIVITY WILL END BY ABOUT 02-03Z...THEN VFR WITH A 6000-10000 FT DECK WILL BE IN PLACE INTO THE MORNING HOURS. && .MARINE... THIS WILL BE A QUIET PERIOD MARKED BY A RELATIVELY WEAK FLOW AND LOW SEAS. SEVERAL MID LEVEL SHORT WAVES AND THEIR ASSOCIATED SURFACE TROFS WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED CONVECTION THIS WEEKEND...BUT MAINLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. WINDS AND SEAS WILL BE BRIEFLY HIGHER IN THE VICINITY OF ANY CONVECTION. A COASTAL LOW WILL TRACK NORTHEAST OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST ON TUE... REACHING THE OFFSHORE WATERS OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND BY WED MORNING. && .HYDROLOGY... DIURNAL CONVECTION THROUGH THIS WEEKEND COULD PRODUCE AREAL QPF FROM FROM A TENTH TO A QUARTER INCH...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS IN STRONGER CELLS. && .OKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CT...NONE. NJ...NONE. NY...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && PUBLIC...GOODMAN MARINE...DW AVIATION...MPS
Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 2:49 AM EST, 15 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 349 AM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-280900- BERGEN NJ-BRONX NY-EASTERN PASSAIC NJ-ESSEX NJ-HUDSON NJ- KINGS (BROOKLYN) NY-NASSAU NY-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) NY- NORTHEAST SUFFOLK NY-NORTHERN FAIRFIELD CT-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX CT- NORTHERN NEW HAVEN CT-NORTHERN NEW LONDON CT-NORTHERN WESTCHESTER NY- NORTHWEST SUFFOLK NY-ORANGE NY-PUTNAM NY-QUEENS NY- RICHMOND (STATEN IS.) NY-ROCKLAND NY-SOUTHEAST SUFFOLK NY- SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD CT-SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX CT-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN CT- SOUTHERN NEW LONDON CT-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER NY-SOUTHWEST SUFFOLK NY- UNION NJ-WESTERN PASSAIC NJ- 349 AM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE PASSES THROUGH THE REGION. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF NEW YORK CITY. THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY CONVECTION WILL BE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF NEW YORK CITY. MAIN THREATS WITH ANY CONVECTION WILL BE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. ANZ330-335-338-350-353-355-280900- FIRE ISLAND INLET NY TO MORICHES INLET NY OUT 20 NM- LONG ISLAND SOUND EAST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- MORICHES INLET NY TO MONTAUK POINT NY OUT 20 NM-NEW YORK HARBOR- SANDY HOOK NJ TO FIRE ISLAND INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 349 AM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK... NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A WEAK DISTURBANCE PASSES THROUGH THE REGION. THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY CONVECTION WILL BE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:51 PM EST, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 551 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 NYZ067-069>071-272215- NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-ORANGE-ROCKLAND-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER- 551 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NEAR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR ORANGE...ROCKLAND AND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES... AT 545 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN ORANGE COUNTY...TRACKING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO ROCKLAND AND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 50 MPH...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, May 27, 5:01 PM EST, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 601 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 NYZ068-272230- PUTNAM- 601 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2005 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NEAR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR PUTNAM COUNTY... AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN PUTNAM COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT MUCH OF PUTNAM COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM. SMALL HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:51 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
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The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in North Carolina, May 27, 2005
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, May 27 to 28, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, May 27 to 28, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Connecticut, May 27, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, May 27, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 27, 2005
- Hail in New Mexico, May 27, 2005
- Hail in Texas, May 27, 2005
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Michigan, May 27, 2005
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Lake Erie, May 27, 2005
- Dust Storm and Hail in Arizona, May 27, 2005
- Storm Surge in Maine, May 27, 2005
More
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Sources
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: 5450024.