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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 4, 1993Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1993, 8:04 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1993, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1993, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT

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, Aug 4, 7:13 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
713 PM EDT WED AUG 4 1993

...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING BOSTONS NORTHWEST SUBURBS
THIS EVENING AND A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING WAS IN EFFECT FROM CAPE ANN
TO BOSTON HARBOR UNTIL 8 PM...

PEABODY REPORTED A WIND GUST OF ABOUT 50 MPH AROUND 7 PM AND THERE
HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZED HAIL IN THE
STONEHAM... WAKEFIELD...WOBURN AREA OF BOSTONS NORTH AND NORTHWEST
SUBURBS.  STONEHAM HAD OVER HALF AN INCH OF RAIN IN 10 MINUTES.

THERE WERE REPORTS OF NEARLY A DOZEN TREES DOWNED NEAR WOBURN CENTER
AROUND 705 PM.

RADAR AT 705 PM SHOWED THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM DRIFTING EAST
NORTHEAST TOWARD SALEM...SWAMPSCOTT...MARBLEHEAD AND LYNN.

ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING EAST
NORTHEAST OF THIS BIG STORM TOWARD BEVERLY AND MANCHESTER.

CONDITIONS STILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS THIS EVENING.  A STRONG
WIND GUST AS WELL AS SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS
BOSTONS NORTHERN AND WESTERN SUBURBS AND THE MERRIMACK VALLEY UNTIL
ABOUT 8 PM.

ALL INTERESTS SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNINGS FROM
THE BOSTON AND WORCESTER OFFICES OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL PROBABLY BE ISSUED BETWEEN 730 AND 8 PM.

DRAG
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 7:16 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:37 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
737 PM EDT WED AUG 4 1993

TIME(EDT)  LOCATION                             REPORT

703 PM     WOBURN                     6 TO 10 TREES DOWN NEAR TOWN CENTER
           (MIDDLESEX CO)             AND HOUSE CAUGHT FIRE FROM
                                      LIGHTNING (RPTD BY POLICE)

644-710 PM WAKEFIELD AND STONEHAM     SVRL RPRTS OF PEA SIZE HAIL
           (SE MIDDLESEX CO)          DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY

719 PM     PEABODY                    TREE BLOWN DOWN ACROSS RTE 114
(EST)      (ESSEX CO)
Local storm report, Aug 4, 7:38 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 7:46 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 7:48 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester60 min
Aug 4, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXEssex45 min
Aug 4, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXMiddlesex40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.