Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1994, 4:06 PM EDT for Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1994, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1994, 4:32 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Plymouth County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 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 092008 RRA SVRBOS MAC023-092100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 406 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MASSACHUSETTS ...NORTHERN PLYMOUTH COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AT 403 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SERVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RANDOLPH. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECETING NORTHERN PLYMOUTH COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS BY 410 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Sep 9, 3:16 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
RIZ001>- 005-CTZ004-092015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 314 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 310 PM NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR AT TAUNTON MA INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN WINDHAM COUNTY CONNECTICUT AND WERE MOVING EAST INTO PROVIDENCE AND KENT COUNTIES OF RHODE ISLAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THAT THESE STORMS ARE ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:44 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
MAZ017-018-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 344 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 340 PM NATIONAL WERATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO BRISTOL AND PLYMOUTH COUNTIES OF MASSACHUSETTS BY 350 PM. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:45 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
MAZ017-018-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 344 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 340 PM NATIONAL WERATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSLSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO BRISTOL AND PLYMOUTH COUNTIES OF MASSACHUSETTS BY 350 PM. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:46 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
MAZ017-018-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 344 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 340 PM NATIONAL WERATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSNSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO BRISTOL AND PLYMOUTH COUNTIES OF MASSACHUSETTS BY 350 PM. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:50 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
MAZ013-017>019-MAZ501-502-504-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 350 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 345 PM RADAR AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NORFOLK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL MOVING INTO FOXBORO AND MANSFIELD BY 350 PM. THIS STORM WILL ALSO BE AFFECTING BROCKTON AND OTHER PORTIONS OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY. KLEIN
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 3:54 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
MAZ013-017>019-MAZ501-502-504-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 350 PM EDT FRI SEP 9 1994 AT 345 PM RADAR AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN NORFOLK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL MOVING INTO FOXBORO AND MANSFIELD BY 350 PM. THIS STORM WILL ALSO BE AFFECTING BRO`CKTON AND OTHER PORTIONS OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY. KLEIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 50 min |
| Sep 9, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 53 min |
| Sep 9, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 54 min |
| Sep 9, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk, Plymouth | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.