Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1994, 3:11 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1994, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1994, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Worcester County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBOS 011912 SVRBOS MAC027-012000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 311 PM EDT WED JUN 1 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ...NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY AT 310 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHWESTERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN THE PETERSHAM...PHILLIPSTON AREA. DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...A|ND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. &
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, 11:49 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
MAZ002>019-MAZ501-502-RIZ001>005-CTZALL-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1147 AM EST WED JUN 1 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON... THE BEST CHANCE FOR DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL IS IN THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF CONNECTICUT...INTERIOR RHODE ISLAND AND EAST HALF OF MASSACHUSETTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT BETWEEN NOON AND 3 PM. SPRINGFIELD AND HARTFORD MAY HAVE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 1 AND 3 PM. THE THREAT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARRIVES IN WORCESTER AND BRIDGEPORT BETWEEN 3 AND 5 PM AND IN THE BOSTON...PROVIDENCE CORRIDOR BrETWEEN 4 AND 6 PM. DRAG
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 12:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
MAZ002>019-MAZ501-502-RIZ001>005-CTZALL-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1147 AM EST WED JUN 1 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON... THE BEST CHANCE FOR DAMAGING WIND OR LARGE HAIL IS IN THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF CONNECTICUT...INTERIOR RHODE ISLAND AND EAST HALF OF MASSACHUSETTS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT BETWEEN NOON AND 3 PM. SPRINGFIELD AND HARTFORD MAY HAVE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN 1 AND 3 PM. THE THREAT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARRIVES IN WORCESTER AND BRIDGEPORT BETWEEN 3 AND 5 PM AND IN THE BOSTON...PROVIDENCE CORRIDOR BETWEEN 4 AND 6 PM. DRAG
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:56 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
MAZ003-004-010>012-011950- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 257 PM EDT WED JUN 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND NORTHWEST WORCESTER COUNTIES... AT 255 PM...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY NEAR WENDELL... SHUTESBURY...AND NEW SALEM. HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL ACCOMPANIED THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING PORTIONS OF NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY BETWEEN 255 PM AND 4 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. LISTEN TO THE WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISIFON STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FIELD
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:57 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
MAZ003-004-010>012-011950- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 257 PM EDT WED JUN 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND NORTHWEST WORCESTER COUNTIES... AT 255 PM...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY NEAR WENDELL... SHUTESBURY...AND NEW SALEM. HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL ACCOMPANIED THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING PORTIONS OF NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY BETWEEN 255 PM AND 4 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. LISTEN TO THE WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FIELD
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.