Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1986, 9:23 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1986, 9:23 PM EDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1986, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 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, 1.4 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 020126 SVRBOS MAC009-020230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA ISSUED 923 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1986 EXPIRES 1030 PM EDT 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...ESSEX...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NASHAUA NEW HAMPSHIRE AT 920 PM EDT. LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WIND..HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR THE NATIONAL 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, 5:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 12 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, 2 hours 59 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, 1 hour 41 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
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:11 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 905 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MASSACHUSETTS INCLUDING THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS EXCEPT NANTUCKET COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 900 PM EDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES WEST OF NASHUAU NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS ESSEX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS FROM 930 PM UNTIL 1030 PM EDT. HAIL..STRONG WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER FRANKLIN AND BERKSHIRE COUNTIES IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. < CSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 58 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.