Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 3, 1997Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1997, 6:06 PM EDT for Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 39 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
Aug 3, 1997, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 1997-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1095 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 1997-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1095 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 032207 RRA
SVRBOS
RIC003-007-032245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
606 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND
 
   ...KENT COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.
 
 
IN NORTH RHODE ISLAND
 
   ...PROVIDENCE COUNTY
 
AT 604 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM
DANIELSON TO PLAINFIELD CONNECTICUT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR GLOCESTER...SCITUATE AND COVENTRY BY 615 PM THEN
TO NEAR LINCOLN...PROVIDENCE AND CRANSTON BY 630 PM. THIS STORM HAS HAD
A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IbN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
EVT/BB

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.