Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 24, 2000Washington County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 8:37 PM EDT for Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 38 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, 8:37 PM EDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 8:52 PM EDTHail 0.88North Kingstown, RI

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 nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 191 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 225 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

728 
WUUS51 KBOX 250038
SVRBOS
RIC009-250115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT.

* AT 834 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
   A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXETER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE NORTH KINGSTOWN.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BOTH DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL
LARGE ENOUGH TO CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SMASHED WINDOWS.

$$
JL/DRV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXKent31 min
May 24, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNewport28 min
May 24, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNewport55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.