Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1994, 6:10 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 1994, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1994, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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
- 590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBDL 012210 RRA SVRBDL CTC005-012315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 610 PM EDT MON AUG 1 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ...SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY OVER THOMASTON. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO PLYMOUTH BY 615 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 1, 5:55 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
CTZ001>004-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED DAY OF WEEK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 555 PM EDT MON AUG 01 1994 AT 550 PM RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT...FROM NEW MILFORD TO THOMASTON. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY BY 620 PM. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 40 MPH AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM. IF WEATHER LOOKS THREATENING...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS STORM. NOTCHEY
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:56 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
CTZ001>004-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 555 PM EDT THU AUG 01 1994 AT 550 PM RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT...FROM NEW MILFORD TO THOMASTON. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY BY 620 PM. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 40 MPH AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM. IF WEATHER LOOKS THREATENING...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS STORM. NOTCHEY
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 6:03 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
CTZ001>004-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED DAY OF WEEK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 555 PM EDT MON AUG 01 1994 AT 550 PM RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS SOUTHERN LITCHFIELD COUNTY OF CONNECTICUT...FROM NEW MILFORD TO THOMASTON. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY BY 620 PM. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 40 MPH AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM. IF WEATHER LOOKS THREATENING...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS STORM. NOTCHEY
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.