Low Barometer- And a Beach Story- June 29,2009
Posted by Tim Kelley June 29, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Tonight we are tracking a slow moving 996 millibar Low near Burke Vermont.
Your barometer at home read around 29.4 to 29.6″, as low as it gets in June with no hurricane around.
This is the same energy that moved in Friday and spent the weekend.
Here is my beach story from Saturday June 27, 2009, maybe you can relate.
We arrived To Bright Blue Sky Duxbury Beach 10 AM.
Baby seed cumulus had already formed inland Plymouth County as seen in the 10 AM photo looking west.
Also at 10 AM, we could see cirrus outflow from another June
Nor’Easter that is forming near benchmark.
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It’s been one long month of June…
Posted by Danielle Niles June 29, 2009 at 11:42 am
The end of June is only a couple of days away now, and I’m pretty sure many of us are hoping for a better July in terms of the weather! An unseasonably cool and wet weather pattern over the past several weeks have put a damper on outdoor plans, and left us longing for summer to truly arrive. And even though it’s only Monday, all eyes are on this upcoming holiday weekend. So let’s break down the forecast for the next several days… Read more
Matt’s Weekly Weather Word Contest, new word for the week of June 29, 2009
Posted by Matt Noyes June 29, 2009 at 7:11 am
Well, it’s a Monday and you know what that means – time for another Weekly Weather Word Contest! On the line: an NECN Prize Package full of NECN Goodies, and the pride of seeing your name and hometown proudly displayed for just under four million households in six states to admire. So, put your thinking caps on and get ready to come up with your fresh, creative, weather-related sentence using this week’s word.
As always, send your sentence, with name, address and phone number via email to weatherword@necn.com and make sure to tune in on Friday morning at 6:51 AM, when Matt will announce the winner!
Latest information on EF 1 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN WETHERSFIELD, CT
Posted by Joe Joyce June 28, 2009 at 6:59 am
…EF1 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN WETHERSFIELD CT ON FRIDAY JUNE 26…
LOCATION… WETHERSFIELD…HARTFORD COUNTY…CONNECTICUT
DATE… FRIDAY JUNE 26 2009
TIME… 450-453 PM
MAXIMUM EF SCALE RATING… EF1
ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED… 100 MPH
MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH… APPROXIMATELY 40 YARDS
PATH LENGTH… APPROXIMATELY 1.7 MILES
*FATALITIES… NONE
*INJURIES… 1
*NOTE THESE NUMBERS COULD CHANGE AFTER ISSUANCE OF THIS PRODUCT.
…SUMMARY…
LATE IN THE AFTERNOON ON JUNE 26…A POWERFUL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVED EAST-SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY…DOWNING
TREES AND POWERLINES ACROSS MANY TOWNS…INCLUDING BURLINGTON…
FARMINGTON…PLAINVILLE…WEST HARTFORD…SOUTHINGTON…BRISTOL…
NEW BRITAIN…NEWINGTON…WETHERSFIELD…GLASTONBURY…AND
MARLBOROUGH. HARDEST HIT WERE THE TOWNS OF WETHERSFIELD AND
FARMINGTON.
ON SATURDAY JUNE 27…TWO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS) TEAMS
INVESTIGATED THE DAMAGE. THE FIRST SURVEY TEAM WAS FROM THE NWS IN
TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS WHICH LOOKED AT DAMAGE IN THOSE TWO TOWNS AND
SPOKE WITH EYEWITNESSES. THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY STATE EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT…LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS…AND AN AMATEUR RADIO
COORDINATOR FROM WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THE SECOND TEAM WAS FROM THE
NWS IN UPTON NEW YORK. AIDED BY THE CIVIL AIR PATROL…THEY
PERFORMED AN AERIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DAMAGE FROM AS FAR WEST AS
TORRINGTON TO AS FAR EAST AS COLCHESTER. THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY
OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS.
SEVERAL POCKETS OF STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE WERE NOTED THROUGHOUT
THE AFOREMENTIONED TOWNS. IN FARMINGTON…THE STORM HIT GENERALLY
AROUND 420 PM. ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS OF 50-60 MPH KNOCKED DOWN TREES
IN THE VALLEY VIEW DRIVE AND CEDAR RIDGE DRIVE AREAS…JUST TO THE
EAST OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER. THE DAMAGE WAS
RANDOM AND MANY OF THE AFFECTED TREES HAD SHALLOW ROOTS WITH HOLLOW
CENTERS. FARTHER TO THE NORTHWEST…IN THE UNIONVILLE SECTION OF
FARMINGTON…15 TO 20 TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN ON PERRY STREET NEAR
THE FARMINGTON RIVER. THESE WERE HEALTHIER TREES. A DIVERGENT
PATTERN WAS SEEN IN THE DAMAGE WHICH AGAIN INDICATED STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS…OR A SMALL MICROBURST. WIND SPEEDS WERE ESTIMATED AT 60 TO
70 MPH AT THAT LOCATION. THROUGHOUT THE TOWN…ALL TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN FROM THE WEST-NORTHWEST TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST. INTERESTINGLY…
19 HOURS AFTER THE EVENT…A SOLID PATCH OF HAIL STILL REMAINED ON
THE FRONT LAWN AT A HOME ON PERRY STREET.
IN WETHERSFIELD…DAMAGE WAS MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT. NUMEROUS TREES
WERE KNOCKED DOWN…SOME DRIVEN COMPLETELY THROUGH HOMES MAKING THEM
UNINHABITABLE. STREET LIGHTS WERE STILL OUT. LARGE HEALTHY OAK TREES
WERE SLICED IN HALF…SOME NEAR THEIR BASES… AND OTHERS WERE
UPROOTED WITH ROOTS EXPOSED. ALTHOUGH MANY TREES WERE SEEN BLOWN
DOWN FROM THE WEST-NORTHWEST TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST…THE GROUND
SURVEY WAS ABLE TO DISCERN A DEFINITIVE TORNADO TRACK EMBEDDED
WITHIN THIS GENERAL STRAIGHT-LINE DAMAGE.
ON WOLCOTT HILL ROAD NEAR ROBBINS DRIVE…TREES WERE FALLEN FACING
DUE SOUTH. FARTHER TO THE SOUTHEAST…IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF OLD
WETHERSFIELD… A VERY INTERESTING PATTERN WAS FOUND IN THE TREE
DAMAGE. ON BROAD STREET AT THE GREEN…TREES AT RAYNOR LANE WERE
POINTING TO THE NORTHEAST WHILE ONLY A BLOCK OR TWO NORTH ON ELM
STREET…TREES WERE POINTING TO THE SOUTHEAST…INDICATING
CONVERGENCE TOWARD A VERY NARROW TRACK. FOLLOWING ELM STREET
SOUTHEASTWARD BETWEEN MAPLE STREET AND INTERSTATE 91…THERE WAS A
CORN FIELD. THE FLATTENED CORN STALKS WERE IN A CRISS-CROSS PATTERN
AND ABOUT 100 FEET INTO THE CORN FIELD…THERE WERE TALL STALKS THAT
WERE SEEMINGLY NOT IMPACTED AT ALL BY THE WINDS. THIS SHARP
DELINEATION IS INDICATIVE OF TORNADIC WINDS. FARTHER TO THE
NORTHWEST…ALONG THIS SAME NARROW PATH…SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE
OCCURRED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF PARK AVENUE AND NOTT STREET.
ANOTHER INDICATOR OF A TORNADO WAS A MEDIA REPORT OF A STORE ON
SILAS DEANE HIGHWAY DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE TOWN HALL WHICH HAD ITS
LARGE WINDOWS SUCKED OUTWARD…WITH A KAYAK FROM INSIDE THE STORE
BEING DEPOSITED ON THE ROAD IN FRONT OF THE STORE.
SO…THE TRACK STARTED NEAR NOTT STREET AND PARK AVENUE AND
CONTINUED SOUTHEASTWARD FOR APPROXIMATELY 1.7 MILES PASSING JUST
SOUTH OF THE TOWN HALL AND ACROSS THE GREEN BETWEEN RAYNOR LANE AND
ELM STREET AND ENDING JUST AFTER THE CORN FIELD BEFORE INTERSTATE
I-91. CALLS BEGAN BEING RECEIVED AT THE 9-1-1 CALL CENTER AT 450 PM.
WITH THE STORM TRAVELING AT 25 TO 30 MPH…THE TORNADO IS ESTIMATED
TO HAVE LASTED FOR ABOUT 3 MINUTES IN WETHERSFIELD. STRAIGHT LINE
WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THIS…DUE TO THE
STRENGTH OF THE LARGER PARENT THUNDERSTORM CELL.
INDEPENDENTLY…THE GROUND SURVEY TEAM AND THE AERIAL SURVEY
TEAM ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 80 TO 90 MPH WITH SOME GUSTS PROBABLY
AROUND 100 MPH. THE DAMAGE INDICATORS SEEN WERE CONSISTENT WITH AN
ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE RANKING OF EF1. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT
BOTH TEAMS FOUND THAT THERE WAS LITTLE EVIDENCE IN THE WAY OF
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOMES OR BUSINESSES…EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHICH
WERE HIT DIRECTLY BY FALLING TREES.
EYEWITNESSES REPORTED A LOUD ROARING NOISE BUT DID NOT OBSERVE THE
TORNADO…WHICH WAS LIKELY OBSCURED BY HEAVY RAIN AND LARGE HAIL.
QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL WAS COMMON IN WETHERSFIELD.
APPROXIMATELY ONE-QUARTER MILE TO THE NORTH OF THE TRACK…A HOME
WAS SLICED IN HALF BY A LARGE OAK TREE WHILE TWO RESIDENTS WERE
INSIDE. AMAZINGLY…THEY ESCAPED WITHOUT INJURY. ON JUNE 27…THE
DAY AFTER THE EVENT…A TREE LIMB THAT HAD BEEN BROKEN OFF DURING
THE STORM BUT WHICH HAD REMAINED HIGH UP IN THE TREE FELL DOWN AND
STRUCK A MAN. THIS WAS THE ONLY REPORTED INJURY.
WHILE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS NARROW TORNADO MAY HAVE AFFECTED
OTHER AREAS TO THE SOUTHEAST OF WETHERSFIELD…IT COULD NOT BE
CONFIRMED BY THE AERIAL SURVEY TEAM. AGAIN…MOST OF WHAT THEY COULD
SEE FROM THE AIR WAS STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE SCATTERED ACROSS THE
ENTIRE ROUTE…FROM LITCHFIELD COUNTY…THROUGH THE SOUTHERN HALF OF
HARTFORD COUNTY….AND INTO EXTREME NORTHERN NEW LONDON COUNTY.
ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE…WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS
OUR SINCERE APPRECIATION TO ALL PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH THIS SURVEY
PROCESS. IN PARTICULAR…THE CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY…THE CIVIL AIR PATROL…FARMINGTON
AND WETHERSFIELD POLICE CHIEFS…WETHERSFIELD TOWN MANAGER…AND THE
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AMATEUR RADIO COORDINATOR. ALSO…A SPECIAL
THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THIS EVENT YET
TOOK THE TIME TO SPEAK WITH US.
Major Energy-Climate Bill Passes Through House
Posted by Joe Joyce June 27, 2009 at 7:00 am
House narrowly passes major energy-climate bill 219-212. Full Story Inside Read more
Tim’s Friday Pics- Too Cool & Wet June 26, 2009
Posted by Tim Kelley June 26, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Latoyia Edwards chats with Tim Kelley as he shows pictures from our June Nor’Easter, the impact on the Garden, and some rare rays of New England Sunshine.
Upper Level Low Madness!
Posted by Joe Joyce June 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I know what you are thinking…”You’ve got to be kidding me?!” I wish I was. Just as we finally broke out of the spring duldrums.. we are moving into a more summer-like doldrum just in time for the weekend.
Once again the culprit is an Upper Level low providing instability to the atmosphere, with each afternoon having the best chance of scattered afternoon T’showers and downpours in this moisture loaded environment. So how about this weekend??? I have got you covered! Full Discussion inside! Read more
Matt’s Weekly Weather Word Contest – Winner for week of June 22-26, 2009
Posted by Matt Noyes June 26, 2009 at 5:41 am
I’m sure this week’s weather word winner was bright, cheery and glad – or in other words jocund – to find out that she won the NECN prize Package, including another wonderful game donated by GameWright. If you missed the segment on Friday, don’t worry – you can check out the winning sentence in the video segment in this post. Make sure to tune in on Monday at 6:51 AM when Matt will announce the next Weekly Weather Word!
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