Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 3:53 PM EDT for Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1995, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 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, 7.9 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
- 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 041954 RRA SVRBOS MAC023-MAZ501-502-501-504-501-042100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 353 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MASSACHUSETTS ...PLYMOUTH COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...MERRIMACK RIVER TO GLOUCESTER ...GLOUCESTER TO BOSTON HARBOR ...BOSTON HARBOR TO PLYMOUTH ...PLYMOUTH TO CAPE COD BAY ...CAPE COD BAY TO CHATHAM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THEY WILL AFFECT PLYMOUTH COUNTY BY 400 PM...AND WILL CONTINUE EAST ACROSS THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS THROUGH 500 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. 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 32 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 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
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 3:21 PM EDT, 32 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, 32 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, 27 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, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 25 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.