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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 8, 1996Cheshire County, New Hampshire; Worcester County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 3:35 PM EDT for Cheshire County, New Hampshire; Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 1996, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 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 19:36 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Rindge, NH
Jul 8, 4:15 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Athol, MA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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.

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: 180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 081940 COR
SVRBOS
MAC027-NHC005-082015-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION FOR TIME
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
335 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS

   ...NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY


IN SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE

   ...SOUTHEASTERN CHESHIRE COUNTY

AT 335 PM....WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING
OVER EXTREME NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY AND SOUTHEAST CHESHIRE
COUNTIES...FROM ATHOL AND ROYALSTON NORTH INTO RICHMOND AND FITZWILLIAM.

THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AND MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL
AS IT RIDES THE COUNTY BORDER BETWEEN NORTHERN WORCESTER AND SOUTHEAST
CHESHIRE COUNTIES THROUGH 4 PM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AN\D 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.

DRV/RMT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hillsborough	66 min
Jul 8, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	45 min
Jul 8, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	51 min
Jul 8, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex	69 min
Jul 8, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.