Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1992, 6:47 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1992, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Capitol Planning Region, CT
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 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 KBDL 022249 SVRBDL CTC003-022315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 647 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ...NORTH CENTRAL HARTFORD COUNTY IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 2, 4:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
MAZ005-006-CTZ001-002-004-005-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 440 PM EDT SAT MAY 02 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 187 HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 PM EDT... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE WATCH AREA WILL HELP TO MAINTAIN AND INTENSIFY THUNDERSTORMS RACING RAPIDLY EAST FROM NEW YORK STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE WATCH AREA BY 6PM AND SOME OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRONG WINDS.
Special weather statement, May 2, 6:28 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
RIZALL-030030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 627 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF RHODE ISLAND UNTIL 1100 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS IN THE ATMOSPHERE ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. AT 600 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST SOUTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THESE STORMS MAY BEGIN TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF WESTERN RHODE ISLAND AROUND 730 PM. IF SEVERE WEATHER BECOMES IMMINENT FOR THE OCEAN STATE...WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED. ALL RHODE ISLANDERS SHOULD R@EMAIN ALERT AND BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATNING WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CADIMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 43 min |
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.