Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 26, 1995Cheshire County, New Hampshire

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1995, 3:03 PM EDT for Cheshire County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1995, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Cheshire County, NH

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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 1995-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1161 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 1995-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
1161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 261903 RRA
SVRBOS
NHC005-261930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
303 PM EDT WED JUL 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
   ...NORTHERN CHESHIRE COUNTY
 
AT 3 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHERN CHESHIRE COUNTY...BETWEEN WALPOLE AND KEENE. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST AFFECTING GILSUM AND SULLIVAN THROUGH 330 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.
 
DRAG/VALLEE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXHillsborough26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 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.