Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 24, 1995Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 10:52 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1995, 10:52 PM EDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Capitol Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 250252
SVRBOS
CTC003-250330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1052 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...HARTFORD COUNTY
 
AT 1047 PM WEATHER SEREVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS HAD A
HISTORY OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS...ASK YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO
RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
 
DCY/LJC

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.