Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2016, 3:06 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 16, 2016, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Capitol Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted.
350
WUUS51 KBOX 161906
SVRBOX
CTC003-161945-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0113.160816T1906Z-160816T1945Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
306 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT
* AT 305 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
SIMSBURY...OR NEAR WINDSOR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ENFIELD...WINDSOR...SIMSBURY...BLOOMFIELD...SUFFIELD...
WINDSOR LOCKS...GRANBY...EAST WINDSOR...CANTON AND EAST GRANBY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE A TORNADO.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4203 7267 4195 7251 4194 7251 4182 7283
4190 7291
TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 239DEG 24KT 4189 7279
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
THOMPSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 12:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 37 min | |
| Aug 16, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 55 min | |
| Aug 16, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 63 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 49 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 44 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.