Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 3:50 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 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, 7.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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
Local storm report, Apr 4, 2:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 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 26 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, 29 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, 29 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, 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 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, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Suffolk | 60 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.