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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 24, 2000Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 3:42 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 48 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
May 24, 2000, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
48 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 19:41 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, 7.7 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 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

116 
WUUS51 KBOX 241942
SVRBOS
CTC015-242030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
342 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
    INCLUDING PUTNAM

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT.

* AT 340 PM EDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
  NEAR STAFFORD PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WOODSTOCK...POMFRET...
  KILLINGLY...DANIELSON...BROOKLYN AND ASHFORD.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BOTH DAMAGING WIND AND HAS 
A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN ENFIELD CONNECTICUT.
$$
DRV/JL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region52 min
May 24, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region31 min
May 24, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region42 min
May 24, 7:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region39 min

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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.