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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 280
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2015, 3:16 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2015, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2015, 7:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Orange County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Burlington radar (KCXX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Northwest Hills Planning Region | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Grafton | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Belknap, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan | 39 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min | |
| Jun 9, 4:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Vermont, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Hampshire, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Massachusetts, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015
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.