Alert archive / Connecticut / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2013, 5:59 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut 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
- Jul 10, 2013, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
297
WFUS51 KBOX 102159
TORBOX
CTC015-102215-
/O.NEW.KBOX.TO.W.0012.130710T2159Z-130710T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
559 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 554 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR CHAPLIN...OR 6 MILES EAST OF MANSFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHAPLIN...ASHFORD...EASTFORD...HAMPTON AND BROOKLYN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4171 7217 4175 7219 4175 7216 4183 7216
4184 7221 4185 7222 4188 7222 4194 7201
4176 7188
TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 248DEG 17KT 4180 7213
$$
KJCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 38 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 47 min | |
| Jul 10, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 80 min | |
| Jul 10, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 44 min | |
| Jul 10, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 50 min | |
| Jul 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 27 min |
| Jul 10, 5:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 38 min |
| Jul 10, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 30 min |
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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.