Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1994, 2:05 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1994, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 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 121806 RRA SVRBDL CTC005-121900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 205 PM EDT THU MAY 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...LITCHFIELD COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED INTO WESTERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NEAR NEW MILFORD AND IS MOVING EASTWARD AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE LIVING IN WATERBURY SHOULD STAY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS STORM AS STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND 3/4 INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. 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, May 12, 1:33 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
CTZ001-002-005>007-009>011-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 133 PM EDT THU MAY 12 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL CONNECTICUT COUNTIES WEST OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER... AT 130 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL NEW JERSEY EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD TO SOUTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ENTERING LITCHFIELD COUNTY BY 140 PM EDT AND WILL MOVE INTO HARTFORD COUNTY BY 215 PM EDT. PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER SHOULD THESE STORMS APPROACH THEIR AREA. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. PIERCE
Special weather statement, May 12, 1:38 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
CTZ001-002-005>007-009>011-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 133 PM EDT THU MAY 12 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL CONNECTICUT COUNTIES WEST OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER... AT 130 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL NEW JERSEY EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD TO SOUTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ENTERING LITCHFIELD COUNTY BY 140 PM EDT AND WILL MOVE INTO HARTFORD COUNTY BY 215 PM EDT. PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER SHOULD THESE STORMS APPROACH THEIR AREA. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. PIERCE
Special weather statement, May 12, 1:50 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
CTZ001-002-005>007-009>011-122200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 133 PM EDT THU MAY 12 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL CONNECTICUT COUNTIES WEST OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER... AT 130 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL NEW JERSEY EXTENDING NORTHEASTWARD TO SOUTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ENTERING LITCHFIELD COUNTY BY 140 PM EDT AND WILL MOVE INTO HARTFORD COUNTY BY 215 PM EDT. PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER SHOULD THESE STORMS APPROACH THEIR AREA. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. PIERCE
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.