Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1994, 2:04 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1994, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 061805 RRA SVRBDL CTC003-005-061900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 204 PM EDT FRI MAY 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ...HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...EASTERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DISPLAYS POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN LITCHFIELD AND WESTERN HARTFORD COUNTIES. SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE THAT TREES AND POWER LINES HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN IN WESTERN PORTIONS OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL EFFECT HARTFORD COUNTY UNTIL 300 PM. THE STORMS SHOULD EXIT LITCHFIELD COUNTY BY 220 PM. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN... HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY AND ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. &
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 6, 12:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
CTZ001-CTZ002-061830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 1240 PM EDT FRI MAY 6 1994 RADAR HAS DETECED THUNDERSTORMS FROM ALBANY NEW YORK TO POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD SMALL HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MILE AN HOUR. THE THUNDERTORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO LITCHFIELD AND HARTFORD COUNTRY BY 1 OR 2 PM RGW
Special weather statement, May 6, 12:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
CTZ001-CTZ002-061830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 1240 PM EDT FRI MAY 6 1994 RADAR HAS DETECED THUNDERSTORMS FROM ALBANY NEW YORK TO POUGHKEEPSIE NEW YORK MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD SMALL HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MILE AN HOUR. THE THUNDERTORMS SHOULD BE MOVING INTO LITCHFIELD AND HARTFORD COUNTRY BY 1 OR 2 PM RGW
Special weather statement, May 6, 1:20 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
CTZALL-MAZ011-061900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 120 PM EDT FRI MAY 06 1994 AT 120 PM RADAR AT BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL LITCHFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT AND CENTRAL BERKSHIRE COUNTY OF MASSACHUSETTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF HAMPDEN COUNTY AND HARTFORD COUNTY BY 145 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH...AND LIGHTNING. WOODCOCK
Special weather statement, May 6, 1:25 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
CTZALL-MAZ011-061900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 120 PM EDT FRI MAY 06 1994 AT 120 PM RADAR AT BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL LITCHFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT AND CENTRAL BERKSHIRE COUNTY OF MASSACHUSETTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF HAMPDEN COUNTY AND HARTFORD COUNTY BY 145 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCEdD SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH...AND LIGHTNING. WOODCOCK
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.