Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT for Cheshire County, New Hampshire; Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Worcester County, MA, Cheshire County, NH
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 082232 SVRBOS MAC027-NHC005-082315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 630 PM EDT SAT JUN 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ...NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE ...SOUTHERN CHESHIRE COUNTY AT 620 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ERVING STATE FOREST. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL MOVE TO WINCHENDON AND ATHOL BY 645 PM...THEN INTO RINDGE AND JAFFR NH BY 7 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS...ASK YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WTB/EVT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.