Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 31, 2007Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2007, 6:29 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 16 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 31, 2007, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2007, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
16 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), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 100 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 2007-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2007-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 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.

000 
WUUS51 KBOX 312229
SVRBOX
CTC003-312315-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0021.070531T2229Z-070531T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
629 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007

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...HARTFORD...EAST HARTFORD...BRISTOL...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 624 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  HARTFORD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WETHERSFIELD AND SOUTH WINDSOR BY 635 PM EDT...
  EAST HARTFORD BY 640 PM EDT...
  GLASTONBURY AND ROCKY HILL BY 645 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4169 7301 4179 7302 4182 7298 4181 7296
      4183 7296 4198 7274 4198 7253 4164 7252
      4163 7266 4159 7272

$$

FRANK
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KBOX 312245
SVSBOX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
644 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007

CTC003-312254-
/O.CAN.KBOX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070531T2315Z/
HARTFORD CT-
644 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HARTFORD COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM OVER HARTFORD COUNTY HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE 
LIMITS.  THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HARTFORD 
COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED.  HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND 
LIGHTNING IS STILL EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4169 7301 4179 7302 4182 7298 4181 7296
      4183 7296 4198 7274 4198 7253 4164 7252
      4163 7266 4159 7272

$$

FRANK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.