Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2012, 3:38 PM EDT for Kent County, Providence County, Washington County, Rhode Island; Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 52 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
- Jul 1, 2012, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
639
WUUS51 KBOX 011938
SVRBOX
CTC013-015-RIC003-007-009-012030-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0036.120701T1938Z-120701T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
338 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN KENT COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND...
SOUTHWESTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND...
NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND...
SOUTHERN WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
SOUTHEASTERN TOLLAND COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT...
* AT 335 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
WILLIMANTIC...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HAMPTON...SCOTLAND...BROOKLYN...CANTERBURY...DANIELSON...PLAINFIELD
AND STERLING
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
&&
LAT...LON 4153 7180 4164 7180 4163 7197 4165 7215
4171 7224 4170 7226 4166 7226 4165 7229
4168 7245 4188 7230 4176 7165 4151 7175
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 290DEG 26KT 4175 7215
$$
JMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 41 min |
| Jul 1, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent, Washington | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence | 41 min |
| Jul 1, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 36 min |
| Jul 1, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Washington | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 31 min | |
| Jul 1, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 2012Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.