Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT for Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 KBOS 092147 RRA SVRBOS RIC003-007-092230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 545 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND ...KENT COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. IN NORTH RHODE ISLAND ...PROVIDENCE COUNTY AT 540 :PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PROVIDENCE AND KENT COUNTIES OF RHODE ISLAND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT MOOSUP VALLEY AND GREENE BY 615 PM.
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, Sep 9, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
MAZ017-018-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 344 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 340 PM NATIONAL WERATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSNSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO BRISTOL AND PLYMOUTH COUNTIES OF MASSACHUSETTS BY 350 PM. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
MAZ013-017>019-MAZ501-502-504-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 350 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 345 PM RADAR AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NORFOLK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL MOVING INTO FOXBORO AND MANSFIELD BY 350 PM. THIS STORM WILL ALSO BE AFFECTING BROCKTON AND OTHER PORTIONS OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
MAZ013-017>019-MAZ501-502-504-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 350 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 345 PM RADAR AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NORFOLK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL MOVING INTO FOXBORO AND MANSFIELD BY 350 PM. THIS STORM WILL ALSO BE AFFECTING BRO`CKTON AND OTHER PORTIONS OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:24 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
MAZ005>007-013>024-501-502-504-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 525 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 515 PM RADAR AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE TO JUST WEST OF WORCESTER TO HARTFORD CONNECTICUT. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...ESPECIALLY BOSTON AND POINTS NORTH...SHOULD EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS SOMETIME BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM THIS EVENING. ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OFF THE NORTH SHORE COASTLINE MOVING FURTHER OUT TO SEA. HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAVE BEEN THE FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. GIRODO
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:25 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
MAZ005>007-013>024-501-502-504-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 525 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 515 PM RADAR AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE TO JUST WEST OF WORCESTER TO HARTFORD CONNECTICUT. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH...WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...ESPECIALLY BOSTON AND POINTS NORTH...SHOULD EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS SOMETIME BETWEEN 6 AND 7 PM THIS EVENING. ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OFF THE NORTH SHORE COASTLINE MOVING FURTHER OUT TO SEA. HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAVE BEEN THE FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. GIRODO
Local storm report, Sep 9, 5:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
542 PM EDT FRI AUG 9 1994
540 PM EDT MARLBORO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL...TREES DOWN...
(MIDDLESEX CO) AND POWER OUTAGES REPORT.ED BY
MARLBORO POLICE DEPT.
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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.