Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 894
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 9, 2008, 11:40 AM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; 7 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 2008, 11:40 AM EDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2008, 2:57 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Bristol County, MA, Essex County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 38 min |
| Sep 9, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 37 min |
| Sep 9, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 44 min |
| Sep 9, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 38 min |
| Sep 9, 12:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth, Worcester | 48 min |
| Sep 9, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 31 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 8:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min | |
| Sep 9, 9:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 6 hr |
| Sep 9, 11:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 36 min | |
| Sep 9, 12:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Massachusetts, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Rhode Island, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Connecticut, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2008
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.