Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 6:13 PM EDT for Franklin County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1995, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 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 292215 SVRBOS MAC011-292300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 613 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROWE IN WEST FRANKLIN COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS GREENFIELD AROUND 620 PM AND WILL MOVE SOUTH OF ORANGE AROUND 640 PM. THIS STORM PRODUCED QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN RENSSELAER COUNTY NEW YORK JUST BEFORE 6 PM AND DIME SIZE HAIL IN WILLIAMSTOWN MASSA8CHUSETTS AROUND 605 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS...ASK YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. WTB
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 29, 12:49 PM EDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
MAZALL-501>504-RIZALL-501-502-CTZALL-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1250 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CONNECTICUT...RHODE ISLAND AND MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AT THIS TIME. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. BEHIND THIS WARM FRONT IS VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR. THIS WARM...MOIST AIR WILL COMBINE WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT OVER WESTERN NEW YORK TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. ACROSS CONNECTICUT...RHODE ISLAND AND MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. ACROSS CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THOUGH THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL CONTAIN HAIL...STRONRG WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF YOU ARE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON...PLEASE KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND CONDITIONS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. CZEPYHA
Special weather statement, May 29, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
MAZALL-501>504-RIZALL-501-502-CTZALL-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 235 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CONNECTICUT...RHODE ISLAND AND MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AT THIS TIME. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. BEHIND THIS WARM FRONT IS VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR. THIS WARM...MOIST AIR WILL COMBINE WITH AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT OVER WESTERN NEW YORK TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. AT 230PM A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR BURLINGTON VERMONT SOUTHWEST THROUGH BINGHAMTON NEW YORK AND THEN THROUGH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THIS LINE IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND SHOULD REACH WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT BETWEEN 5PM AND 6PM EDT. ACROSS CONNECTICUT...RHODE ISLAND AND MOST OF MASSACHUSETTS SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. ACROSS CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THOUGH THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL CONTAIN HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF YOU ARE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON...PLEASE KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND CONDITIONS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GET TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. CZEPYHA/HANLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 28 min |
| May 29, 7:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Hampden | 39 min |
| May 29, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 53 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.