Alert archive / Rhode Island / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2016, 1:30 PM EDT for Bristol County, Kent County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 30 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 13, 2016, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1051 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
527
WUUS51 KBOX 131730
SVRBOX
RIC001-003-131800-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0096.160813T1730Z-160813T1800Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
130 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN BRISTOL COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND...
SOUTHEASTERN KENT COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND...
* UNTIL 200 PM EDT
* AT 130 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EAST
GREENWICH...OR NEAR NORTH KINGSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WARWICK...NORTH KINGSTOWN...BRISTOL...BARRINGTON...
EAST GREENWICH...WARREN AND PRUDENCE ISLAND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 4166 7154 4167 7131 4169 7129 4171 7129
4172 7133 4168 7138 4169 7143 4176 7127
4164 7126 4167 7128 4168 7128 4165 7130
4165 7142 4160 7149
TIME...MOT...LOC 1730Z 247DEG 9KT 4163 7144
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
NOCERAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 11:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 11:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Providence | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 4:09 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 27 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Providence | 116 min |
| Aug 13, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 6:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Providence | 52 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.