Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut; Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Agawam, MA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
967 WUUS51 KBOX 242249 SVRBOS CTC003-MAC013-242330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 648 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT WESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 730 PM EDT. * AT 643 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WINSTED ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WESTFIELD...SOUTHWICK RUSSELL AND HARTLAND. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ DRV/JL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 52 min |
| May 24, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 48 min |
| May 24, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 31 min |
| May 24, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 39 min |
| May 24, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 37 min |
| May 24, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 19 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.