Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 3:29 PM EDT for Kent County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kent County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBOS 041929 RRA SVRBOS MAC005-RIC003-001-005-009-RIZ501-502-MAZ503-042030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 329 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MASSACHUSETTS ...BRISTOL COUNTY IN CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND ...KENT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND ...BRISTOL COUNTY IN SOUTH RHODE ISLAND ...NEWPORT COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERESTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN RHODE ISLAND AND WILL MOVE INTO BRISTOL COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS BY 345 PM. 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
Local storm report, Apr 4, 2:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 220 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 A WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER IN SOUTHINGTON CT REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 56 MPH WITH CONSIDERABLE WIND DAMAGE AT 210 PM. & ` VALLIER-TALBOT
Local storm report, Apr 4, 2:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 321 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 AT ABOUT 314 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT WORCESTER REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH. & DRAG
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 3:21 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-RIZALL-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 320 PM EST TUE APR 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELED FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF MASSACHUSETTS... A STRONG COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT FOR BERKSHIRE...FRANKLIN...HAMPSHIRE AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCEPLED FOR THOSE COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR THE REMAINDER OF MASSACHUSETTS...EXCEPT THE CAPE...AS WELL AS ALL OF CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND. DCY
Local storm report, Apr 4, 3:21 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 321 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 AT ABOUT 314 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT WORCESTER REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH. & DRAG MAGE. VALLIER-TALBOT
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 3:26 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-RIZALL-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 320 PM EST TUE APR 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELED FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF MASSACHUSETTS... A STRONG COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT FOR BERKSHIRE...FRANKLIN...HAMPSHIRE AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCEnLED FOR THOSE COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR THE REMAINDER OF MASSACHUSETTS...EXCEPT THE CAPE...AS WELL AS ALL OF CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND. DCY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Newport | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.