Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 29, 1995Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 7:52 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Hampshire County, MA

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 303 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 292353
SVRBOS
MAC015-300045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
752 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
 
AT 750 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR SOUTHAMPTON. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR.  IT WILL REACH SOUTH HADLEY AROUND 755 PM AND PASS BELCHERTOWN
AROUND 820 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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin47 min
May 29, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin, Worcester28 min
May 29, 7:21 PM EDTTornado WarningBOXHampden39 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.