Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 908

November 25, 20045 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 25, 2004, 11:00 AM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 25, 2004, 11:00 AM EST (16:00 UTC)
Expired
Nov 25, 2004, 4:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Oxford County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Providence County, RI, Caledonia County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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.

Warnings issued inside it

1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 25, 12:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton34 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 192 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 25, 8:55 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Nov 25, 10:13 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Nov 25, 12:48 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Hampshire, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Massachusetts, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Vermont, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.