Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 23, 1996Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1996, 6:31 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 44 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: Aug 23, 1996, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

County Capitol Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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 232232
SVRBOS
CTC003-013-232315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
631 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 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 NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN HARTFORD COUNTY...SOUTHERN TOLLAND COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS RAPIDLY DEVELOPED OVER GLASTONBURY. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING TOWARDS HEBRON...ANDOVER AND COLUMBIA. DAMAGING WINDS WILL
ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL
ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
 
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.
 
THOMPSON/FIELD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	49 min
Aug 23, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	45 min
Aug 23, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.