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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 5, 2007Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2007, 1:20 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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 5, 2007, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2007, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
40 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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 5, 1:25 PM EDTHAIL 0.75Southington, CT
Jun 5, 1:30 PM EDTHAIL 1.75Southington, CTDAMAGE TO CARS

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 5, 12:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 2007-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 504 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 2007-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KBOX 051720
SVRBOX
CTC003-051800-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0039.070605T1720Z-070605T1800Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
120 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...NEWINGTON...NEW BRITAIN...

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 113 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SOUTHINGTON...OR ABOUT NEAR MERIDEN...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BERLIN AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF NEWINGTON BY 125 PM EDT...
  ROCKY HILL AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF WETHERSFIELD BY 135 PM EDT...
  GLASTONBURY BY 140 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS AND
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND.

LAT...LON 4156 7292 4163 7296 4178 7250 4159 7243
      4158 7244 4160 7249 4164 7252 4164 7255
      4162 7270 4155 7281 4154 7287

$$

DUNHAM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region52 min
Jun 5, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region48 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.