Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 9:11 AM EDT for Dukes County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1995, 9:11 AM EDT (13:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1995, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dukes County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 2454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 151310 RRA SVRBOS MAC001-007-151400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 911 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MASSACHUSETTS ...BARNSTABLE COUNTY...DUKES COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS WILL SPREAD ACROSS PARTS OF THE CAPE AND DUKES COUNTY BY 935 AM. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF BUZZARDS BAY AT 905 AM. WIND GUSTS TO 75 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FOR DUKES COUNTY AND POSSIBLY THE UPPER CAPE NEAR WOODS HOLE BETWEEN 915 AND 935 AM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jul 15, 5:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
MAZ002>024-501>504-CTZ001>008-RIZALL-RIZ501-502-NHZ011-012-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 520 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CHESHIRE AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTIES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNTIL 10 AM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TODAY WHILE THE RECORD HEAT CONTINUES... AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. THE VERY HOT AND HUMID AIR MASS THAT IS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION WILL CONTINUE...WITH TEMPERATURES SOARING THROUGH THE 90S TO NEAR 100 IN MANY LOCATIONS. A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS IS EXPECTED TO INITIATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX HAS RACED ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES CAUSING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WIND DAMAGE. THIS COMPLEX WAS RACING THROUGH NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE AT DAYBREAK. IN NEW ENGLAND...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE UNTIL 10 AM. THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE... COULD ENTER NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE BETWEEN 7 AND 9 AM THIS MORNING...THEN RACE EASTWARD ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS DURING THE LATE MORNING. ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE LATE IN THE DAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON FULL ALERT TODAY. FIELD
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 5:21 AM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
MAZ002>024-501>504-CTZ001>008-RIZALL-RIZ501-502-NHZ011-012-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 520 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CHESHIRE AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTIES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNTIL 10 AM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TODAY WHILE THE RECORD HEAT CONTINUES... AN OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TODAY ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. THE VERY HOT AND HUMID AIR MASS THAT IS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION WILL CONTINUE...WITH TEMPERATURES SOARING THROUGH THE 90S TO NEAR 100 IN MANY LOCATIONS. A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING SOUTHWARD ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS IS EXPECTED TO INITIATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX HAS RACED ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES CAUSING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WIND DAMAGE. THIS COMPLEX WAS RACING THROUGH NORTHERN NEW YORK STATE AT DAYBREAK. IN NEW ENGLAND...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE UNTIL 10 AM. THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE... COULD ENTER NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE BETWEEN 7 AND 9 AM THIS MORNING...THEN RACE EASTWARD ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS DURING THE LATE MORNING. ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE LATE IN THE DAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS A&ND SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON FULL ALERT TODAY. FIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 42 min |
| Jul 15, 7:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 48 min |
| Jul 15, 7:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 44 min |
| Jul 15, 8:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 43 min |
| Jul 15, 8:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 8:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 8:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 8:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 39 min |
| Jul 15, 8:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 43 min |
| Jul 15, 9:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 49 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.