Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1986, 8:02 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1986, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1986, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Essex County, MA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBOS 020005 SVRBOS MAC009-020100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA ISSUED 802 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1986 EXPIRES 900 PM EDT 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...ESSEX...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT METHEUN AT 758 PM EDT FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PREPARE FOR STRONG WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WEATHER SERVICE. HOLDERBACH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 315 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT ACROSS WESTERN..CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS..INCLUDING THE GREATER BOSTON AREA.. UNTIL 8 PM EDT.... RADAR INDICATES THERE ARE NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE AT THIS TIME. THE NEAREST HEAVY THUNDERSTORM CONCENTRATION IS APPROACHING THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. THIS LINE IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL BEGIN AFFECTING MASSACHUSETTS THIS EVENING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS SHOWING UP IN THE VICINITY OF ALBANY NEW YORK AND SHOULD MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE STATE DURING THE NEXT HOUR O?R TWO. DUNNE
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 515 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT ACROSS WESTERN..CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS..INCLUDING THE GREATER BOSTON AREA.. UNTIL 8 PM EDT.... AT 5 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF PORTSMOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE WEST THROUGH CONCORD NEW HAMPSHIRE TO SOUTWESTERN VERMONT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AND WILL SKIRT THE MASSACHUSETTS BORDER THROUGH 7 PM. RADAR ALSO INDICATES SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN BERKSHIRES OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AT 5 PM. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO STRENGTHEN AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS BETWEEN 5:15 AND 8 PM THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE NEXT +STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT 6:15 PM. DILLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 6:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 615 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT ACROSS WESTERN..CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS..INCLUDING THE GREATER BOSTON AREA.. UNTIL 8 PM EDT.... AT 615 PM EDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. THERE WERE NO OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN MASSACHUSETTS AT THAT TIME. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF THE STATE AFTER 700 PM EDT THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE NEXT STATE`MENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 715 PM. CSH
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:42 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
^BOSSPSPVD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PROVIDENCE RI 745 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES OF RHODE ISLAND FROM 800 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT THIS SUNDAY EVENING. LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MARINERS SHOULD REMAIN CLOSE TO A SAFE PORT AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. TK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.