Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 2:29 PM EDT for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
TTAA00 KNYC 041834 RRA
SVRNYC
CTC011-NYZ502-041930-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
229 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT
FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT
...NEW LONDON COUNTY
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
...FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS AROUND
...LONG ISLAND SOUND
A LINE OF SEVERE WIND GUSTS WILL BE MOVING INTO NEW LONDON COUNTY AND
ACROSS EASTERN LONG ISLAND SOUND IN THE NEXT 45 MINUTES. THIS LINE WILL
PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPHf.
IF OUTDOORS...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
THE LINE WILL BE INTO NEW LONDON AREA BY 3:00 PM.
JSTWhat 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, 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, 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 60 min | |
| Apr 4, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 59 min |
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.