Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 10, 2000Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 12:43 PM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 47 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 10, 2000, 12:43 PM EDT (16:43 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:42 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 10, 12:45 PM EDTHail 0.88Scituate, 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 2000-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 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 101644
SVRBOS
RIC007-101730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1243 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT.

* AT 1242 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SCITUATE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF
  PROVIDENCE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SMITHFIELD...NORTH
  SMITHFIELD AND LINCOLN.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
THOMPSON

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.