NWS Gray MESV.W 0050July 16, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Cheshire, Hillsborough and Rockingham, NH
The National Weather Service office in Gray issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Cheshire, Hillsborough and Rockingham in New Hampshire, which was in force until 5:30 p.m. local time on July 16. It was the 50th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Gray issued in 2026. New Hampshire had 20 severe thunderstorm warnings in July 2026, against 26 in an average July of 2008-2025 (New Hampshire's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 46 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Gray ME
- Area
- Cheshire, Hillsborough and Rockingham
- State
- New Hampshire
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 4:44 p.m. EDT, July 16, 2026
- Expires
- 5:30 p.m. EDT, July 16, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KGYX SV.W 0050
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
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The notice as issued
SVRGYX The National Weather Service in Gray Maine has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire... Central Cheshire County in southern New Hampshire... Hillsborough County in southern New Hampshire... * Until 530 PM EDT. * At 443 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Gilsum to near Goffstown, moving southeast at 55 mph. These storms will likely produce areas of damaging wind gusts despite producing little thunder. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Manchester, Derry, Keene, Jaffrey, Merrimack, Bedford, Milford, Hooksett, Amherst, Litchfield, Peterborough, New Boston, Antrim, Mont Vernon, Greenfield, Lyndeborough, Dublin, Francestown, Bennington, and Harrisville. This includes the following highways... Interstate 293 between mile markers 1 and 10. Interstate 93 between mile markers 5 and 24. This also includes... Mount Monadnock and North Pack Monadnock.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
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