Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1986, 5:34 PM EDT for Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1986, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1986, 6:34 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, RI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 2702 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPVD 312136 COR SVRPVD RIC009-312234- BULLETIN--IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED..CORRECTED TIME SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 534 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 634 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF RHODE ISLAND...WASHINGTON AT 534 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF THE SOUTHWEST TIP OF RHODE ISLAND. THIS CONTAINS HAIL AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS AS WELL AS HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORMS MOVEMENT HAS BEEN TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE LIVING IN WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF RHODE ISLAND SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND HEAD FOR A SAFE SHELTER AS IT APPROACHES.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
^BOSSPSPVD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 314 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...A VERY STRONG THUNSTORM IS MOVING THROUGH RHODE ISLAND... .AT 300 PM A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG..SQUALLY WINDS..HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE HAIL DEVELOPED NORTH OF PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND. THIS STORM COULD LIKELY MOVE INTO NARRAGANSETT BAY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. RHODE ISLANDERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR TfREATENING WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER AS IT APPROACHES. MARINERS SHOULD HEAD FOR A SAFE PORT NOW AND WAIT FOR THE STORM TO PASS. MMC
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:44 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
^BOSSPSPVD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 445 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CLEARED RHODE ISLAND... .AT 300 PM A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG..SQUALLY WINDS..HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE HAIL DEVELOPED NORTH OF PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND. THIS STORM MOVED EAST INTO MASSACHUSSETTES. OTHER STORMS ARE FORMING IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT AND COULD MOVE INTO RHODE ISLAND. RHODE ISLANDERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR TREATENING WEATHER AND TAKE SHELTER AS IT APPROACHES. MARINERS SHOULD HEAD FOR A SAFE PORT NOW AND WAIT FOR THE STORM TO PASS. TK
Nearby
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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.