Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 8:14 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1995, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBOS 300014 SVRBOS MAC027-300100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 814 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ...NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY AT 813 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF WARWICK. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL BE NEAR ROYALSTON BY 830 PM AND NEAR GARDNER BY 845 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, 2:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 43 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, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Franklin | 28 min |
| May 29, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 41 min |
| May 29, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.