NWS Boston/Norton MASV.W 0023June 30, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Hartford, Franklin, Hampden and 1 more, CT and MA
The National Weather Service office in Boston/Norton issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Hartford, Franklin, Hampden and 1 more in Connecticut, Massachusetts, which was in force until 7:00 p.m. local time on June 30. It was the 23rd severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Boston/Norton issued in 2026. Connecticut had 18 severe thunderstorm warnings in June 2026, against 18 in an average June of 2008-2025 (Connecticut's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 1.1 hours; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Boston/Norton MA
- Area
- Hartford, Franklin, Hampden and 1 more
- State
- Connecticut
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 5:55 p.m. EDT, June 30, 2026
- Expires
- 7:00 p.m. EDT, June 30, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KBOX SV.W 0023
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut since 2008Every warning type in Connecticut
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The notice as issued
SVRBOX The National Weather Service in Boston/Norton has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northwestern Hartford County in northern Connecticut... Hampshire County in western Massachusetts... West central Franklin County in western Massachusetts... Hampden County in western Massachusetts... * Until 700 PM EDT. * At 555 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Savoy to near Becket to near Livingston, moving southeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines. * Locations impacted include... Springfield, Chicopee, Enfield, Westfield, Holyoke, Amherst, Northampton, Agawam, West Springfield, Deerfield, Simsbury, Ludlow, South Hadley, Easthampton, Longmeadow, Suffield, Belchertown, Windsor Locks, Canton, and Southwick.
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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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut since 200881 a year
- Every warning type in Connecticut
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, June 20265,183 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels