Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1992, 8:48 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 1992, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1992, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 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 110049 SVRBDL CTC005-110130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 848 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...NORTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY AT 840 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE COUNTIES OF DUTCHESS AND COLUMBIA IN EASTERN NEW YORK STATE WAS TRACKING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE TOWNS OF LAKEVILLE AND SALISBURY IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY BY 855 PM. THE SEVERE STORM WILL THEN CONTINUE EAST...REACHING CANAAN BY 915 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Sep 10, 6:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
MAC003-011-013-015-027-110045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 639 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS UNTIL 11 PM EDT. A WATCH MEAN THAT CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN NEW YORK STATE AND ARE NOW ENTERING WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. IF A W ARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION BE READY TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT ABOUT 830 PM EDT. THF
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 8:04 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
MAZ004-005-110100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WORCESTER MA 803 PM EDT THU SEP 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... AT 750 PM WORCESTER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT...THROUGH EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND THEN SOUTHWEST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 40 MPH. IF THIS MOVEMENT CONTINUES THEY WILL BE ENTERING WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY OF MASSACHUSETTS AFTER 815 PM AND HAMPSHIRE COUNTY SHORTLY THEREAFTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR BERKSHIRE COUNTY UNTIL 830 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A SEVERE T(HUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS. KEHIR
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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.