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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 11, 1995Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 5:53 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1995, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 1995-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 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 112153 RRA
SVRBOS
CTC015-112245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
553 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHERN WINDHAM COUNTY
 
AT 550 PM...A THUNDERSTORM NEAR WINDHAM IN SOUTHWEST WINDHAM COUNTY
PROBABLY WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES
SOUTHEAST TOWARD SCOTLAND...CANTERBURY AND PLAINFIELD ALONG THE
SOUTHERN BORDER OF WINDHAM COUNTY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...ArND 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.
 
DRAG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region37 min
Jul 11, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region51 min
Jul 11, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region29 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.