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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 31, 2002Providence County, Rhode Island; Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 6:43 PM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island; Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 47 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, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Providence County, RI

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 31, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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.

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

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The text

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

334 
WUUS51 KBOX 312243
SVRBOX
CTC015-RIC007-312330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
    INCLUDING WOONSOCKET...PROVIDENCE
  WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
    INCLUDING PUTNAM

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT.

* AT 636 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM WOODSTOCK TO MANSFIELD...MOVING
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  THOMPSON...KILLINGLY AND DANIELSON AROUND 650 PM EDT
  FOSTER AND BURRILLVILLE AROUND 655 PM EDT
  GLOCESTER AROUND 700 PM EDT
  SMITHFIELD...NORTH SMITHFIELD AND SCITUATE AROUND 705 PM EDT
  LINCOLN...JOHNSTON AND WOONSOCKET AROUND 710 PM EDT
  CENTRAL FALLS...NORTH PROVIDENCE AND CUMBERLAND AROUND 715 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, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	40 min
May 31, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 2002 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.