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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 11, 2000Bristol County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 3:03 PM EDT for Bristol County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 42 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 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

County Bristol County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 30 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 12 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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/JF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXKent, Providence42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.