Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT for Cheshire County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 7, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1997, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheshire County, NH
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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.
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 7, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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
Local storm report, Jul 7, 12:53 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1252 PM EDT MON JUL 7 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1226 PM SOUTH HADLEY MA 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 HAMPSHIRE CONTINUING THROUGH 1240 PM
JLLocal storm report, Jul 7, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
251 PM EDT MON JUL 7 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1226 PM SOUTH HADLEY MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 HAMPSHIRE CONTINUING THROUGH 1240 PM
0220 PM RICHMOND NH LIGHTNING
07/07/97 CHESHIRE *** 1 INJ ***
PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
0240 PM NORTHBRIDGE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER SKYWARN SPOTTER
0243 PM UPTON MA .88 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER UPTON POLICE DEPT
JLLocal storm report, Jul 7, 2:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
251 PM EDT MON JUL 7 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1226 PM SOUTH HADLEY MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 HAMPSHIRE CONTINUING THROUGH 1240 PM
0220 PM RICHMOND NH LIGHTNING
07/07/97 CHESHIRE *** 1 INJ ***
PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
0240 PM NORTHBRIDGE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER SKYWARN SPOTTER
0243 PM UPTON MA .88 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 lWORCESTER PER UPTON POLICE DEPT
JLLocal storm report, Jul 7, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
315 PM EDT MON JUL 7 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1226 PM SOUTH HADLEY MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 HAMPSHIRE CONTINUING THROUGH 1240 PM
0220 PM RICHMOND NH LIGHTNING
07/07/97 CHESHIRE *** 1 INJ ***
PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
0240 PM NORTHBRIDGE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER SKYWARN SPOTTER
0243 PM UPTON MA .88 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER UPTON POLICE DEPT
0253 PM NORFOLK MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 NORFOLK PER NORFOLK POLICE DEPT
0310 PM WALPOLE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 NORFOLK PER HAM RADIO NETWORK
JLLocal storm report, Jul 7, 3:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
315 PM EDT MON JUL 7 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1226 PM SOUTH HADLEY MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 HAMPSHIRE CONTINUING THROUGH 1240 PM
0220 PM RICHMOND NH LIGHTNING
07/07/97 CHESHIRE *** 1 INJ ***
PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
0240 PM NORTHBRIDGE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER SKYWARN SPOTTER
0243 PM UPTON MA .88 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER UPTON POLICE DEPT
0253 PM NORFOLK MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 NORFOLK PER NORFOLK POLICE DEPT
0310 PM WALPOLE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 NORFOLK PER HAM RADIO NETWORK
JLLocal storm report, Jul 7, 3:57 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
315 PM EDT MON JUL 7 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1226 PM SOUTH HADLEY MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 HAMPSHIRE CONTINUING THROUGH 1240 PM
0220 PM RICHMOND NH LIGHTNING
07/07/97 CHESHIRE *** 1 INJ ***
PERSON STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
0230 PM RINDGE NH .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 CHESHIRE PER SKYWARN SPOTTER
0240 PM NORTHBRIDGE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER SKYWARN SPOTTER
0243 PM UPTON MA .88 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 WORCESTER PER UPTON POLICE DEPT
0253 PM NORFOLK MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 NORFOL$K PER NORFOLK POLICE DEPT
0310 PM WALPOLE MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/07/97 NORFOLK PER HAM RADIO NETWORK
JLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.