Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1998, 12:41 AM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 29 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
- Sep 16, 1998, 12:41 AM EDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1998, 1:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 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 04:45 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 3521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
489 WUUS1 KBOS 160443 RRA SVRBOS CTC003-013-160510- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1241 AM EDT WED SEP 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HARTFOTD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT NORTHERN TOLLAND COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT * UNTIL 110 AM EDT * AT 1235 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. * TOWNS IN/NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... EAST GRANBY AT 1240 AM ELLINGTON AT 1250 AM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GIRODO
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, Sep 15, 8:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
805 PM EDT TUE SEP 15 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0657 PM BOSTON MA WIND DAMAGE
09/15/98 SUFFOLK 63 MPH WIND GUST PER ASOSLocal storm report, Sep 15, 8:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
805 PM EDT TUE SEP 15 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0657 PM BOSTON MA WIND DAMAGE
09/15/98 SUFFOLK 63 MPH WIND GUST PER ASOSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 1:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.