Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT for Belknap County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 14, 1996, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Belknap County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 14, 7:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Laconia, 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 nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
NHZ005-007-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 520 PM EDT SUN JUL 14 1996 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GRAFTON COUNTY AS WELL AS SULLIVAN COUNTY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE... AT 515 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN GRAY MAINE INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER WINDSOR COUNTY VERMONT. THESE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GRAFTON COUNTY AND SULLIVAN COUNTY BETWEEN LEBANON AND CHARLESTOWN BETWEEN 430 PM AND 5 PM. THOSE PERSONS OUT OF DOORS THIS AFTERNOON WILL WANT TO WATCH FOR THREATENING SKIES AND BE READY TO MAKE FOR SAFE SHELTER. BOATERS SHOULD MAKE rFOR SHORE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING SKIES. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
NHZ005-007-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 520 PM EDT SUN JUL 14 1996 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GRAFTON COUNTY AS WELL AS SULLIVAN COUNTY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE... AT 515 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN GRAY MAINE INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER WINDSOR COUNTY VERMONT. THESE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN GRAFTON COUNTY AND SULLIVAN COUNTY BETWEEN LEBANON AND CHARLESTOWN BETWEEN 530 PM AND 6 PM. THOSE PERSONS OUT OF DOORS THIS AFTERNOON WILL WANT TO WATCH FOR THREATENING SKIES AND BE READY TO MAKE FOR SAFE SHELTER. BOATERS SHOULD MAKE FOR SHORE AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING SKIES. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:06 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
NHZ003>010-013-014-150300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 605 PM EDT SUN JUL 14 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW HAMPSHIRE UNTIL 11 PM... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES BELKNAP...MERRIMACK...ROCKINGHAM ...STRAFFORD AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES. THE WATCH MEANS THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS IN AND CLOSE TO THESE COUNTIES. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY FIRING UP ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS INDICATED BY WEATHER RADAR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH ACROSS SULLIVAN...MERRIMACK AND SOUTHERN GRAFTON COUNTIES AT 6 PM. RADAR INDICATED THESE STORMS CONTAINED HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOULD BE ALERT TO ANY THREATENING WEATHER. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. SJC/NWS GRAY ME
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Carroll | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Oxford | 5 hr |
Nearby
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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.