Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 14, 1996Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1996, 6:57 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 63 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
Jul 14, 1996, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Hillsborough County, NH

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 142257
SVRBOS
NHC011-150000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
657 PM EDT SUN JUL 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
   ...HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
 
AT 652 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH THROUGH CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO THE MANCHESTER AREA BETWEEN 730 AND 800 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.
 
DCY/JS/JO/JN

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 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.