Alert archive / Connecticut / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this red flag warning at Apr 24, 2014, 3:37 AM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 24, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2014, 3:37 AM EDT (07:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 24, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2014, 7:16 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:42 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
810 WWUS81 KBOX 240737 RFWBOX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 337 AM EDT THU APR 24 2014 CTZ002>004-241545- /O.NEW.KBOX.FW.W.0001.140424T1400Z-140425T0000Z/ HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT- 337 AM EDT THU APR 24 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... * AFFECTED AREA...NORTHERN CONNECTICUT. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...DRY WEATHER AND GUSTY WINDS WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. ANY FIRES THAT START MAY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND BECOME DIFFICULT TO EXTINGUISH. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/BOX /ALL LOWER CASE/ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
1 follow-up statement
252 WWUS81 KBOX 242316 RFWBOX URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 716 PM EDT THU APR 24 2014 CTZ002>004-250030- /O.CAN.KBOX.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140425T0000Z/ HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT- 716 PM EDT THU APR 24 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. WINDS ARE BEGINNING TO DIMINISH AND RH VALUES ARE STARTING TO RISE ABOVE 30 PERCENT. BECAUSE OF THIS TREND THE RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/BOX /ALL LOWER CASE/ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
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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.