Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 28, 1995Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 9:46 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 9:46 PM EDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, NH

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 1995-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 1995-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 290146 RRA
SVRBOS
NHC011-290230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
946 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
   ...NORTHERN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
 
AT 945 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF ANTRIM IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY. THIS
STORM IS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
 
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.
 
LJC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 9:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXCheshire2 hr
Jul 28, 11:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXCheshire2 hr
Jul 29, 12:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXHillsborough3 hr

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.