Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 28, 1995Hampden County, Worcester County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 12:13 AM EDT for Hampden County, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 1:15 AM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hampden County, MA, Worcester County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 160 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 280414 RRA
SVRBOS
MAC027-013-280515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1213 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY
 
IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...EAST CENTRAL HAMPDEN COUNTY
 
AT 1212 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING EAST ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY NEAR WALES. THIS STORM
WILL MOVE JUST SOUTH OF WORCESTER BY 1 AM EDT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HA*IL...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.
 
 
DCY/JO/WTB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 1:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester58 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.