Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 2:56 AM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 10, 2000, 2:56 AM EDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Woonsocket, RI | |
| Aug 10, 3:30 AM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Cumberland, 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KBOX 100656
SVRBOS
CTC015-RIC007-100745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
256 AM EDT THU AUG 10 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
INCLUDING PROVIDENCE...WOONSOCKET
WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
INCLUDING PUTNAM
* UNTIL 345 AM EDT.
* AT 253 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER POMFRET...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PUTNAM...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SMITHFIELD...
SCITUATE...NORTH SMITHFIELD...NORTH PROVIDENCE...LINCOLN...
JOHNSTON...GLOCESTER...FOSTER...CUMBERLAND...CENTRAL FALLS...
BURRILLVILLE...MILLBURY...WOODSTOCK...THOMPSON...KILLINGLY...
HAMPTON...EASTFORD...DANIELSON...BROOKLYN AND ASHFORD.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARG2E HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
JF/JDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 25 min |
| Aug 10, 2:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 3:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 39 min |
| Aug 10, 3:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Providence | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2000Severe 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.