Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1994, 1:45 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1994, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1994, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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, 5.8 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 23, 1:30 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
MAZ004-012-231900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WORCESTER MA 130 PM EDT MON MAY 23 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE OCCURRING IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS... AT 125 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL NEAR STERLING. MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AS THIS STORM MOVED THROUGH LEOMINSTER AT 1PM. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN PORTION OF WORCESTER COUNTY UNTIL AROUND 3PM. CULLEN
Special weather statement, May 23, 1:34 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
MAZ004-012-231900-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WORCESTER MA
130 PM EDT MON MAY 23 1994
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE OCCURRING IN
CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS...
AT 125 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM
WITH SMALL HAIL NEAR STERLING. MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AS
THIS STORM MOVED THROUGH LEOMINSTER AT 1PM.
$
THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE EASTERN
PORTION OF WORCESTER COUNTY UNTIL AROUND 3PM.
CULLENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 52 min |
| May 23, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 56 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.