Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 31, 2002Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 6:05 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 40 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: May 31, 2002, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

County Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

785 
WUUS51 KBOX 312205
SVRBOX
CTC013-015-312245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
604 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TOLLAND COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
    INCLUDING VERNON...MANSFIELD
  WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
    INCLUDING WILLIMANTIC...PUTNAM

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT.

* AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ELLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WILLINGTON...MANSFIELD AND STAFFORD AROUND 610 PM EDT
  EASTFORD AND TOLLAND AROUND 615 PM EDT
  POMFRET AROUND 620 PM EDT
  PUTNAM AROUND 625 PM EDT.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND 
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

$$

AED/GAF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	45 min
May 31, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	35 min
May 31, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	40 min
May 31, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	49 min
May 31, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	46 min
May 31, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.