Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 18, 1995Worcester County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1995, 6:41 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1995, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1995, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
64 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 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 182242 RRA
SVRBOS
MAC027-182345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
641 PM EDT TUE JUL 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY
 
AT 640 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
EAST ACROSS NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY AFFECTING TOWNS ALONG AND NORTH OF
A LINE FROM ATHOL TO FITCHBURG...APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND NORTH OF
ROUTE 2.
 
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 COVE
RS THE ROAD.
 
DRV/WD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin42 min
Jul 18, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin33 min
Jul 18, 7:15 PM EDTTornado WarningBOXWorcester30 min
Jul 18, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXMiddlesex, Worcester30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.