Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 2, 2004Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 3:29 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2004, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Capitol Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 2, 3:32 PM EDTHAIL 0.88Avon, CTTIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR.
Jun 2, 3:32 PM EDTHAIL 0.88Avon, CTTIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR.
Jun 2, 3:32 PM EDTHAIL 0.88Avon, CTTIME ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1391 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 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.

695 
WUUS51 KBOX 021929
SVRBOX
CTC003-022030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
329 PM EDT WED JUN 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WINDSOR LOCKS...WEST HARTFORD...
  NEWINGTON...NEW BRITAIN...MANCHESTER...HARTFORD...EAST HARTFORD...
  BRISTOL

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 327 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  FARMINGTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF WEST HARTFORD...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WINDSOR...WETHERSFIELD...SOUTH WINDSOR...SIMSBURY...PLAINVILLE...
  GLASTONBURY...ENFIELD...EAST WINDSOR...CANTON...BURLINGTON...
  BLOOMFIELD AND AVON.

LAT...LON 4183 7300 4165 7295 4167 7248 4198 7255

$$

FRANK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.