Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gray, ME

April 23, 1996Grafton County, Sullivan County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT for Grafton County, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 60 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
Apr 23, 1996, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1996, 6:20 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXMerrimack, Sullivan60 min
Apr 23, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.