Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 3, 1997Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 30 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, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 226 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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.

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 032216 RRA
SVRBOS
CTC015-032245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
615 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 LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT
 
   ...EASTERN WINDHAM COUNTY
 
AT 613 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
PLAINFIELD CONNECTICUT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL
MOVE THROUGH DANIELSON AND STERLING. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN
RHODE ISLAND BY 635 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FRxOM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
EVT/BB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region51 min
Aug 3, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 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.