Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 5, 1999Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1999, 3:14 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 46 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 5, 1999, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 1999, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 46 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 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 5, 9:57 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 9:57 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
957 AM EDT THU AUG 5 1999

RADAR EXPECTED RTS ARD 1130 AM.

SVR: PER 1210Z SPC AND GRAPHICS..ISO SVR POSS. 12Z APPEARS A LITTLE
     WETTER THAN MODELED BY 00Z ETA AND 00Z ETA FCST WAS QUITE
     UNSTABLE THIS AFTN WITH TT NR 54 AND PLENTY OF INSTABILITY WITH
     PLENTY OF WIND ALOFT.  WHILE DRY AIR MAY MITIGATE SVR THREAT
     AM STILL CONCERNED FOR WIND DAMAGE.  BLV WE REACH MAX OF 85-87F
     THIS AFTN WITH SFC TDS IN MID 60S WITH THREAT OF TSTMS
     STARTING WEST MASS EARLY AFTN AND REACHING COAST IN DYING OUT
     PHASE ARD 00Z.

     CONVECTIVE TEMP IS NR 82F.  TROP AND EL ARD 34-35K WITH MPL
     43K...WBZ ARD 10K WITH PW ABT 1.3 AND STM INFLOW ARD 25KT.

     COORD ALY ON WORDING OF ANY THREAT.  NO SPS.

.BOX...NONE.

DRAG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 2:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
204 PM EDT THU AUG 05 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0200 PM    SUDBURY                   MA   .75 INCH HAIL
08/05/99   MIDDLESEX                      DIME TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
                                          SUDBURY FLATS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex	42 min
Aug 5, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	40 min
Aug 5, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Norfolk, Plymouth	42 min
Aug 5, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex	51 min
Aug 5, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	49 min
Aug 5, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Norfolk	41 min
Aug 5, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	46 min
Aug 5, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	43 min
Aug 5, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX		38 min
Aug 5, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.