Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT for Essex County, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Essex County, MA, Suffolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 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 041946 RRA SVRBOS MAC009-025-042045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 345 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MASSACHUSETTS ...ESSEX COUNTY...SUFFOLK COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SUFFOLK AND ESSEX COUNTIES BY 400 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS AND HAIL. 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. HANLEY/VALLEE
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
Local storm report, Apr 4, 2:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 220 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 A WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER IN SOUTHINGTON CT REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 56 MPH WITH CONSIDERABLE WIND DAMAGE AT 210 PM. & ` VALLIER-TALBOT
Local storm report, Apr 4, 2:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 321 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 AT ABOUT 314 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT WORCESTER REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH. & DRAG
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 3:21 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-RIZALL-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 320 PM EST TUE APR 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELED FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF MASSACHUSETTS... A STRONG COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT FOR BERKSHIRE...FRANKLIN...HAMPSHIRE AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCEPLED FOR THOSE COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR THE REMAINDER OF MASSACHUSETTS...EXCEPT THE CAPE...AS WELL AS ALL OF CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND. DCY
Local storm report, Apr 4, 3:21 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 321 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 AT ABOUT 314 PM...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT WORCESTER REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 64 MPH. & DRAG MAGE. VALLIER-TALBOT
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 3:26 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-RIZALL-042200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 320 PM EST TUE APR 4 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELED FOR THE WESTERN HALF OF MASSACHUSETTS... A STRONG COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT FOR BERKSHIRE...FRANKLIN...HAMPSHIRE AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCEnLED FOR THOSE COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR THE REMAINDER OF MASSACHUSETTS...EXCEPT THE CAPE...AS WELL AS ALL OF CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND. DCY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 59 min |
| Apr 4, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 70 min |
| Apr 4, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 67 min |
| Apr 4, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.