Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 26, 1997Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1997, 12:51 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 26, 1997, 12:51 PM EDT (16:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1997, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 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 16:55 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 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: 597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

863 
WUUS1 KBOS 261650 RRA
SVRBOS
CTC003-261745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1251 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...HARTFORD COUNTY
 
AT 1245 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
THAT WAS APPROACHING BRISTOL. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING
WINDS...HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OVER THE NEW
BRITAIN AREA AND OTHER SUBURBS SOUTHWEST OF HARTFORD BETWEEN 100 AND
130 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT A LITTLE OVER 25 MPH.
 
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
DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
JO/RMT

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.