Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Gray, ME

July 8, 1996Merrimack County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 3:46 PM EDT for Merrimack County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 59 min. 4 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, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Merrimack County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 8, 4:15 PM EDTThunderstorm WindPembroke, NH
Jul 8, 4:18 PM EDTHail 1Concord, NH
Jul 8, 4:18 PM EDTThunderstorm WindConcord, NH
Jul 8, 4:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindEpsom, NH

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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXMerrimack64 min
Jul 8, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXYork50 min
Jul 8, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Oxford55 min
Jul 8, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXKennebec57 min
Jul 8, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXKnox, Lincoln, Waldo67 min
Jul 8, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Kennebec56 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.