Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 2:46 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 KBOS 041847 RRA SVRBOS CTC015-MAC027-041945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 246 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT ...WINDHAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ...SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS HARTFORD AND TOLLAND COUNTIES IN CONNECTICUT...AS WELL AS...HAMPDEN COUNTY IN MASSACHUSETTS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN MASSACHUSETTS...AND WINDHAM COUTY IN CONNECTICUT BY 300 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. HANLEY/VALLEE
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, 25 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, 22 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, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 60 min | |
| Apr 4, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 70 min |
| Apr 4, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Suffolk | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 67 min |
| Apr 4, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1995Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 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.