Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2006, 5:36 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 24 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
- May 21, 2006, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Capitol Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 5:36 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | South Windsor, CT | LARGE TREES/WIRES DOWN...TIME ESTIMATED |
| May 21, 5:38 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Manchester, CT | TWO TREES DOWN...TIME ESTIMATED |
| May 21, 5:38 PM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | Manchester, CT | TWO TREES DOWN...TIME ESTIMATED |
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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBOX 212136 SVRBOX CTC003-013-212200- /O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0002.060521T2136Z-060521T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 536 PM EDT SUN MAY 21 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MANCHESTER...EAST HARTFORD WESTERN TOLLAND COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VERNON * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 532 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ENFIELD TO SOUTH WINDSOR TO 6 MILES WEST OF WETHERSFIELD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINDSOR LOCKS TO HARTFORD TO NEW BRITAIN...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MANCHESTER...GLASTONBURY AND ELLINGTON BY 545 PM EDT VERNON BY 550 PM EDT TOLLAND...STAFFORD AND BOLTON BY 555 PM EDT ANDOVER BY 600 PM EDT LAT...LON 4201 7256 4167 7269 4167 7234 4201 7225 $$ STRAUSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 27 min |
Nearby
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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.