Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

April 4, 1995Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

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

County Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
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

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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.
 
JST

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, 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.

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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.

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DRAG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNorthwest Hills Planning Region60 min
Apr 4, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region65 min
Apr 4, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOX60 min
Apr 4, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 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.