Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 12, 1990, 11:50 PM EST for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut; Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 1990, 11:50 PM EST (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 13, 1990, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 25 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
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Nov 12, 6:36 PM EST, 5 hours 14 minutes before
MAZALL-130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 635 PM EST MON NOV 12 1990 A PERIOD OF SNOW OR FLURRIES WILL USHER BITTER COLD AIR INTO MUCH OF THE BAY TONIGHT. MANY AREAS IN MASSACHUSETTS SHOULD EXPERIENCE FLURRIES TONIGHT AS THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON SO FAR CHARGES INTO THE REGION. THE GROUND MAY BE DUSTED WITH UP TO HALF AN INCH IN SOME LOCATIONS WITH THE BERKSHIRES IN LINE FOR AN INCH OR 2 OF SNOW. TEMPERATURES WILL PLUMMET THROUGH THE 20S LATER TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO 35 MPH WILL DRIVE THE WIND CHILL TO NEARLY 15 BELOW ZERO. SO BUNDLE UP AND DO NOT BE SURPRISED IF THERE IS A DUSTING OF SNOW TONIGHT. DRAG
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 6:43 PM EST, 5 hours 7 minutes before
MAZALL-130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION PGH 1 LINE 2.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 645 PM EST MON NOV 12 1990 A PERIOD OF SNOW OR FLURRIES WILL USHER BITTER COLD AIR INTO MUCH OF THE BAY STATE TONIGHT. MANY AREAS IN MASSACHUSETTS SHOULD EXPERIENCE FLURRIES TONIGHT AS THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON SO FAR CHARGES INTO THE REGION. THE GROUND MAY BE DUSTED WITH UP TO HALF AN INCH IN SOME LOCATIONS WITH THE BERKSHIRES IN LINE FOR AN INCH OR 2 OF SNOW. TEMPERATURES WILL PLUMMET THROUGH THE 20S LATER TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS TO 35 MPH WILL DRIVE THE WIND CHILL TO NEARLY 15 BELOW ZERO. SO BUNDLE UP AND DO NOT BE SURPRISED IF THERE IS A DUSTING OF SNOW TONIGHT. DRAG
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 9:12 PM EST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
CTZALL-MAZ005-131000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 912 PM EST MON NOV 12 1990 A BITTER COLD NIGHT FOR CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS WITH BELOW ZERO WINDCHILLS AND SNOW FLURRIES. BLUSTERY WINDS COMBINED WITH NEAR RECORD COLD TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE TONIGHT TO CREATE BITTER COLD WINDCHILL TEMPERATURES. THE RECORD LOW FOR BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY MORNING IS 20 SET IN 1986. CURRENTLY AT 9 PM...AIR TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE LOW TO MID 30S WITH WINDS AT 20 TO 35 MPH...CREATING WINDCHILLS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE ZERO. HOWEVER AFTER MIDNIGHT...TEMPERATURES WILL DROP 10 DEGREES WITH WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH AND STRONGER ALONG THE COAST TO CREATE WINDCHILLS OF ZERO TO 10 BELOW ZERO. ADDING TO THE WINTER ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SOME SNOW OVERNIGHT...MAINLY SCATTERED FLURRIES EXCEPT FOR THE BERKSHIRES AND NORTHWEST HILLS WHERE AN INCH OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE. THIS IS THE FIRST WINDCHILL EPISODE OF THE 1990/91 SEASON AND TAKING APPROPIATE MEASURES MAKES THE CHILL A LITTLE MORE BEARABLE. SOME TIPS TO HELP YOU THROUGH THE COLD... - WEAR SEVERAL LAYERS OF LOOSE-FITTING...LIGHTWEIGHT CLOTHING - WEAR A HAT OR HOOD TO MAINTAINAS MUCH BODY HEAT AS~ POSSIBLE - HOOD SHOULD COVER YOUR FACE AND MOUTH TO ENSURE WARM BREATHING - WEAR MITTENS INSTEAD OF FINGERED GLOVES - BRING ALL PETS INSIDE WHITTIER
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1990Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.