Alert archive / Connecticut / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2016, 7:39 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut; Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 51 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 22, 2016, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2016, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
771
WUUS51 KBOX 222339
SVRBOX
CTC003-MAC013-230030-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0053.160722T2339Z-160723T0030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
739 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
SOUTHWESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 737 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
TOLLAND...OR 12 MILES WEST OF WESTFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
ANOTHER STRONG STORM WITH THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WAS
LOCATED NEAR NEW MARLBORO IN SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPRINGFIELD...CHICOPEE...ENFIELD...WESTFIELD...HOLYOKE...AGAWAM...
WEST SPRINGFIELD...LUDLOW...LONGMEADOW...SUFFIELD...
EAST LONGMEADOW...WINDSOR LOCKS...GRANBY...EAST WINDSOR...
SOUTHWICK...EAST GRANBY...HARTLAND...RUSSELL...
GRANVILLE AND BLANDFORD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4212 7306 4215 7307 4215 7303 4219 7302
4218 7250 4193 7254 4196 7289 4197 7289
4197 7303 4204 7301 4204 7306 4206 7305
4211 7307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 275DEG 31KT 4211 7299
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
FIELD1 follow-up statement
984
WWUS51 KBOX 230022
SVSBOX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
822 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
CTC003-MAC013-230030-
/O.CON.KBOX.SV.W.0053.000000T0000Z-160723T0030Z/
HARTFORD CT-HAMPDEN MA-
822 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EDT
FOR NORTHERN HARTFORD AND SOUTHWESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTIES...
AT 819 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHWICK
MASSACHUSETTS AND GRANBY CONNECTICUT AREAS. THEY HAD WEAKENED TO
BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA BUT STILL COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...50 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE POSSIBLE.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPRINGFIELD...CHICOPEE...ENFIELD...WESTFIELD...AGAWAM...
WEST SPRINGFIELD...LUDLOW...LONGMEADOW...SUFFIELD...
EAST LONGMEADOW...WINDSOR LOCKS...GRANBY...EAST WINDSOR...
SOUTHWICK...EAST GRANBY...HARTLAND AND GRANVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4204 7291 4206 7290 4207 7289 4210 7287
4218 7250 4193 7254 4196 7289 4197 7289
4197 7295 4202 7295 4202 7292 4203 7292
TIME...MOT...LOC 0019Z 275DEG 31KT 4208 7250
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
FIELDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire, Worcester | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire, Worcester | 20 min |
| Jul 22, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016
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.