Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1997, 6:56 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 64 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 3, 1997, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hillsborough County, NH
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 3, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado F2 | Greenfield, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBOS 032257 RRA SVRBOS NHC011-040000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 656 PM EDT THU JUL 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE ...HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY AT 655 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CHESHIRE COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS AND HAVE DOWNED TREES IN WALPOLE. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE EAST ACROSS HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY THROUGH 730 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL.B..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. DRV/GF &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Hillsborough | 61 min |
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.