Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 6:40 PM EDT for Kent County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 2, 2000, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kent County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
595
WUUS51 KBOX 022240
SVRBOS
MAC005-RIC001-003-007-022330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
640 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BRISTOL COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
INCLUDING BARRINGTON
NORTHEASTERN KENT COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
INCLUDING WARWICK
SOUTHEASTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
INCLUDING PROVIDENCE
BRISTOL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING ATTLEBOROUGH...FALL RIVER...NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH...
TAUNTON
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT.
* AT 637 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PROVIDENCE...OR
ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF WOONSOCKET...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WEST WARWICK...
WARREN...PAWTUCKET...JOHNSTON...EAST PROVIDENCE...CRANSTON...
CENTRAL FALLS...SWANSEA...SOMERSET...SEEKONK...REHOBOTH...
RAYNHAM...NORTON...MANSFIELD...FREETOWN...EASTON...DIGHTON AND
BERKLEY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
DCY/FN/WTBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Providence | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.