Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 501
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2007, 5:48 PM EDT for York County, Maine; 8 counties in Massachusetts; 9 counties in New Hampshire. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2007, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2007, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hillsborough | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 65 min |
| Jul 9, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hillsborough | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Carroll | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Merrimack | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 41 min |
| Jul 9, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack, Rockingham | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack, Rockingham | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton, Sullivan | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Cheshire | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hillsborough | 62 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | York | 85 min |
| Jul 9, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkshire | 7 hr |
| Jul 9, 10:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coos, Grafton, Sullivan | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 11:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack and 1 more | 117 min |
| Jul 9, 12:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Chenango, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Lewis and 9 more | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 1:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Fulton and 13 more | 95 min |
| Jul 9, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clinton, Essex, Franklin, St. Lawrence | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Hampshire, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Massachusetts, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Maine, 2007Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.