Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 28, 1995Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Worcester County, Massachusetts; Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 1:17 AM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Worcester County, Massachusetts; Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 1995, 1:17 AM EDT (05:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1995, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Worcester County, MA, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:20 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 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 280518 RRA
SVRBOS
CTC015-MAC027-RIC007-280615-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
117 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN WINDHAM COUNTY
 
 
IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTH RHODE ISLAND
 
   ...NORTHERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY
 
AT 114 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING EAST THROUGH NORTHERN WINDAM COUNTY CONNECTICUT AT 25 MPH. WITH
ITS CURRENT MOTION...THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR DOUGLAS MASSACHUSETTS BY
145 AM AND WOONSOCKET RHODE ISLAND BY 215 AM.
 
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.
 
 
DCY/JO/WTB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 12:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Worcester	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1995 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1995 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 1995 Every 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.