Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2016, 7:35 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 40 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
- Apr 1, 2016, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
180
WUUS51 KBOX 012335
SVRBOX
CTC003-013-015-020015-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0018.160401T2335Z-160402T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
735 PM EDT FRI APR 1 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
SOUTHERN TOLLAND COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
SOUTHEASTERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 734 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
MIDDLETOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GLASTONBURY...MANSFIELD...WINDHAM...PLAINFIELD...WILLIMANTIC...
KILLINGLY...COVENTRY...HEBRON...PUTNAM...BROOKLYN...MARLBOROUGH...
COLUMBIA...CANTERBURY...POMFRET...STERLING...ANDOVER...CHAPLIN...HAMPTON...
EASTFORD AND SCOTLAND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4194 7183 4177 7180 4166 7214 4167 7218
4171 7224 4169 7227 4167 7227 4164 7233
4161 7233 4159 7239 4160 7241 4158 7246
4164 7250 4163 7262 4158 7276
TIME...MOT...LOC 2334Z 244DEG 59KT 4158 7261
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
WTB1 follow-up statement
783
WWUS51 KBOX 012357
SVSBOX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
757 PM EDT FRI APR 1 2016
CTC003-013-015-020015-
/O.CON.KBOX.SV.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160402T0015Z/
WINDHAM CT-TOLLAND CT-HARTFORD CT-
757 PM EDT FRI APR 1 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL WINDHAM...SOUTHERN TOLLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN HARTFORD
COUNTIES...
AT 755 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WILLIMANTIC...OR
OVER WINDHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
HAMPTON AROUND 800 PM EDT.
PLAINFIELD...BROOKLYN AND CANTERBURY AROUND 805 PM EDT.
POMFRET AROUND 810 PM EDT.
KILLINGLY...PUTNAM AND STERLING AROUND 815 PM EDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4194 7183 4177 7180 4166 7214 4167 7218
4171 7224 4169 7227 4167 7227 4164 7233
4161 7233 4159 7239 4160 7241 4158 7246
4164 7250 4163 7262 4158 7276
TIME...MOT...LOC 2355Z 244DEG 59KT 4173 7219
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
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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.