Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 3:03 PM EDT for Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 11, 2000, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Scituate, RI | |
| Jun 11, 3:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Warwick, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1310 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KBOX 111903
SVRBOS
RIC001-003-007-111945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
303 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 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
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT.
* AT 301 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CRANSTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PROVIDENCE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WARREN AND EAST
GREENWICH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
RT/JFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 42 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.