Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 1989, 10:08 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 1989, 10:08 PM EDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 1989, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KBDL 150209
SVRBDL
CTC013-015-150315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT
1008 PM EDT OCT 14 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CONNECTICUT
...TOLLAND...WINDHAM
AT 10PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF
TOLLAND MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR. SIMSBURY POLICE
REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL FROM THIS THUNDER STORM . WEATHER RADAR IND
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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, Oct 14, 8:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 820 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 ...SHOWERS AND THUDERSTORMS APPROACHING RHODE ISLAND... AT 800 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 50 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING VIVID AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING RHODE DURING THE FEW HOURS. ALTHOUGH THIS ACTIVITY WILL WEAKEN AS IT MOVES EASTWARD AS IT MOVES EASTWARD...A FEW STORMS COULD STILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS LIVING IN RHODE ISLAND SHOULD STAY INDOORS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. REMEMBER...ALL LIGHTNING IS DANDGEROUS. VALLEE
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 8:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR RHODE ISLAND...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 820 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 ...SHOWERS AND THUDERSTORMS APPROACHING RHODE ISLAND... AT 800 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 50 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING VIVID AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING RHODE DURING THE FEW HOURS. ALTHOUGH THIS ACTIVITY WILL WEAKEN AS IT MOVES EASTWARD A FEW STORMS COULD STILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS LIVING IN RHODE ISLAND SHOULD STAY INDOORS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. REMEMBER...ALL LIGHTNING IS DANGEROUS. VALLEE
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 8:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 825 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS CONNECTICUT AND HAMPDEN COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS... AT 8 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY FROM ALBANY NEW YORK TO JUST NORTHWEST OF POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST HILLS OF CONNECTICUT BY 9 PM. THEY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS CONNECTICUT AND HAMPDEN COUNTY OF MASSACHUSETTS DURING THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS WILL WEAKEN SOMEWHAT AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST... THEY MAY STILL CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD DEMINISH TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AROUND MIDNIGHT. AED
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 9:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR RHODE ISLAND...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 905 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN RHODE ISLAND... AT 845 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ...SOME WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT VIVID LIGHTNING MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN RHODE ISLAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 50 MPH. THIS ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE REST OF THE STATE DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS WILL WEAKEN...SOME MAY STILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PERSONS LIVING IN RHODE ISLAND SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. RE.MEMBER...LIGHTNING KILLS MORE PEOPLE EACH YEAR...THAN WIND OR HAIL...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THESE STORMS APPROACH. VALLEE
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 9:40 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR CONNECTICUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 935 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS CONNECTICUT AND HAMPDEN COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS... AT 930 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTHHAMPTON MASSACHUSETTS TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TORRINGTON CONNECTICUT WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 TO 45 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY AND NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT. HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS SHOULD WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE TO ACROSS CONNECTICUT AND MOVE INTO RHODE ISLAND DURINF THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS. X AED
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 9:49 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 950 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND... AT 930 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ...SOME WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT VIVID LIGHTNING MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NEAR 50 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN RHODE ISLAND DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS LIVING IN RHODE ISLAND SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING KIcLLS MORE PEOPLE EACH YEAR...THAN WIND OR HAIL...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THESE STORMS APPROACH. VALLEE
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.