Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 9:18 PM EDT for Franklin County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1994, 9:18 PM EDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1994, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBOS 140120 SVRBOX MAC011-140215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 918 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS ...FRANKLIN COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR AT WSFO TAUNTON DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH AND WILL REACH CHARLEMONT AND SHELBURNE FALLS BY 945 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND 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 13, 8:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
MAZ002>005-008>012-140500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 800 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL 1 AM OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH DAMAGING WINDS...HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN NEW YORK STATE. THIS AREA WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS BY AROUND 830 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GURKA
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 8:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
MAZ002>005-008>012-140500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 800 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL 1 AM OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH DAMAGING WINDS...HAVE DEVELOPED OVER EASTERN NEW YORK STATE. THIS AREA WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS BY AROUND 830 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GURKA
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.