Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1992, 7:34 PM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1992, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Providence County, RI
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 583 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 KPVD 022335 SVRPVD RIC007-030015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 734 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PROVIDENCE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH RHODE ISLAND ...PROVIDENCE COUNTY AT 730 PM RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST A FEW MILES NORTHWEST OF BURRILLVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL AFFECT BURRILLVILLE BY 740 PM THEN MOVE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY THROUGH 800 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. CADIMA
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 50 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, 1 hour 6 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
Special weather statement, May 2, 7:29 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
RIZALL-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 729 PM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF RHODE ISLAND UNTIL 1100 PM... AT 725 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE... EXTENDING FROM WORCESTER INTO NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND MAY BEGIN TO AFFECT NORTHWEST RHODE ISLAND BY 740 PM. IF SEVERE WEATHER BECOMES IMMINENT FOR THE OCEAN STATE...WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED. ALL RHODE ISLANDERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATNING WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. . CADIMA
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.