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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 8, 1995Cheshire County, New Hampshire

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 3:55 PM EDT for Cheshire County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1995, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Cheshire County, NH

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 786 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 081955 RRA
SVRBOS
NHC005-082045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
355 PM EDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
   ...WESTERN CHESHIRE COUNTY
 
AT 350 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM WALPOLE
TO CHESTERFIELD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD
PASS THROUGH MARLOW...ALSTEAD...AND KEENE BY 415 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.
 
 
WGH/EVT

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.