Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
941 WUUS51 KBOX 232230 SVRBOX CTC003-232300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 630 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WEST HARTFORD...NEWINGTON...NEW BRITAIN...HARTFORD...EAST HARTFORD...BRISTOL * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 627 PM EDT...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PLAINVILLE...OR ABOUT NEAR BRISTOL...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEW BRITAIN AND FARMINGTON BY 640 PM EDT 6 MILES NORTH OF BERLIN BY 645 PM EDT NEWINGTON AND WEST HARTFORD BY 650 PM EDT WETHERSFIELD BY 655 PM EDT HARTFORD...EAST HARTFORD...GLASTONBURY AND ROCKY HILL BY 700 PM EDT HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN BRISTOL AT 621 PM WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. LAT...LON 4171 7307 4154 7298 4167 7247 4188 7259 $$ BELK/MCCORMICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 63 min |
| May 23, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 28 min | |
| May 23, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 12 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.