Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 4:02 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1994, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1994, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 272005 RRA SVRBDL CTC005-272100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 402 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...LITCHFIELD COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY BETWEEN NEW MILFORD AND WATERTOWN BY 410 PM EDT. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY. 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, Jun 27, 1:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
MAZALL-501-502-503-504-RIZALL-501-502-271900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 114 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS ARE MOVING INTO WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AT 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NEIGHBORING CONNECTICUT UNTIL 8 PM. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL WATCH CONDITIONS CLOSELY THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION OR TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. VALLIER-TALBOT/DUNHAM /
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
MAZALL-501-502-503-504-RIZALL-501-502-271900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 114 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS ARE MOVING INTO WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AT 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NEIGHBORING CONNECTICUT UNTIL 8 PM. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL WATCH CONDITIONS, CLOSELY THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION OR TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. VALLIER-TALBOT/DUNHAM
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
RIZ001>007-RIZ502-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 215 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF RHODE ISLAND UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PROVIDENCE...KENT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES OF RHODE ISLAND AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 800 PM. THE WATCH MEANS THAT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MARSH
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
RIZ001>007-RIZ502-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 215 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF RHODE ISLAND UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PROVIDENCE...KENT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES OF RHODE ISLAND AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 800 PM. THE WATCH MEANS THAT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE THnUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MARSH
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
MAZALL-MAZ501>504-RIZALL-RIZ501-502-CTZALL-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 235 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS... ...RHODE ISLAND...AND ALL OF CONNECTICUT UNTIL 800 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND...EXCEPT CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS AND SOUTH COASTAL RHODE ISLAND. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CONNECTICUT. AT 230 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHERN VERMONT AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AS OF 230 PM. IF YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL OR BE OUTSIDE THIS AFTERNOON REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION OR WARNINGS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. HANLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
MAZALL-MAZ501>504-RIZALL-RIZ501-502-CTZALL-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 235 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS... ...RHODE ISLAND...AND ALL OF CONNECTICUT UNTIL 800 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND...EXCEPT CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS AND SOUTH COASTAL RHODE ISLAND. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CONNECTICUT. AT 230 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHERN VERMONT AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AS OF 230 PM. IF YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL OR BE OUTSIDE THIS AFTERNOON REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION OR WARNINGS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. HANLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.