Alert archive / New Hampshire / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1986, 2:54 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1986, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1986, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hillsborough County, NH
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Hillsborough, NH | |
| Jun 16, 3:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Hillsborough, NH |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 KCON 161856 TORCON NHC011-162000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORD NH 254 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...HILLSBOROUGH AT 250 PM THE POLICE CHIEF AT MARLBOROUGH NEW HAMPSHIE SIGHTED A TORNADO WITH EXTENSIVE DAMAGE AT A HOME. REPORT WAS CALLED INTO THE KEENE MUTAL AID STATION. TORNADO MOVING TOWARD THE DUBLIN AREA IN WESTERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. GO TO A BASEMENT OR A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. A BASEMENT..INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IS THE SAFEST PLACE IN MOST BUILDINGIS. MRT/JJM WSO CON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jun 16, 12:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
BULLETIN SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND, ME 1256 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN MAINE... LATEST RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE EXTENDING TO CLOSE TO THE SOUTHWEST MAINE BORDER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN MAINE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS. PEOPLE OVER SOUTHWEST MAINE INCLUDING THE COASTAL AREAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. IF ANY THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. HEAVY RAIN.. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND HAIL MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION AS NEEDED. ..MARINE..
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:47 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
^PWMSPSCON
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORD NH
246 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1986
...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CHESHIRE COUNTY NEW HAMPSHIRE...
RADAR SHOWS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CHESHIRE COUNTY NEW HAMPSHIRE.
THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT NEARLY 50 MPH.
STRONG WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WILL
ACCOMPANY THE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO NORTHERN HILLSBOROUGH AND> SOUTH-
ERN MERRIMACK COUNTIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE WITHIN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO
HOURS.
BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. IF BOATING HEAD FOR SHORE AS QUICKLY
AS POSSIBLE.
MRT/WSO CONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cheshire, Sullivan | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack, Strafford | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 35 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in New Hampshire, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.