Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1995, 1:41 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 1995, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1995, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Essex County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBOS 141742 RRA SVRBOS MAC009-141815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 141 PM EDT THU SEP 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN MASSACHUSETTS ...NORTHERN ESSEX COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AT 135 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE NORTHERN PART OF ESSEX COUNTY NEAR MERRIMAC. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL MOVE THROUGH AMESBURY BY 145 PM...THEN TOWARD SALISBURY...NEWBURYPORT AND PLUM ISLAND BY 2 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WD/EVT
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, Sep 14, 9:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
MAZ002>024-501>504-RIZ001>007-501-502-CTZ002>004-NHZ011-012-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 925 AM EDT THU SEP 14 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SUNSHINE WILL BREAK OUT ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS MORNING. ALONG WITH THE MUGGY...UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. NWS SKYWARN SPOTTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS IN CASE A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH IS ISSUED DURING THE AFTERNOON. VALLIER-TALBOT
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 9:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
MAZ002>024-501>504-RIZ001>007-501-502-CTZ002>004-NHZ011-012-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 925 AM EDT THU SEP 14 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SUNSHINE WILL BREAK OUT ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS MORNING. ALONG WITH THE MUGGY...UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. NWS SKYWARN SPOTTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENINnG WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS IN CASE A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH IS ISSUED DURING THE AFTERNOON. VALLIER-TALBOT
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
MAZ002>024-501>504-RIZ001>007-501-502-CTZ002>004-NHZ011-012-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 935 AM EDT THU SEP 14 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SUNSHINE WILL BREAK OUT ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS MORNING. ALONG WITH THE MUGGY...UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. NWS SKYWARN SPOTTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ^ STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS IN CASE A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH IS ISSUED DURING THE AFTERNOON. VALLIER-TALBOT
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 9:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
MAZ002>024-501>504-RIZ001>007-501-502-CTZ002>004-NHZ011-012-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 935 AM EDT THU SEP 14 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SUNSHINE WILL BREAK OUT ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS MORNING. ALONG WITH THE MUGGY...UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. NWS SKYWARN SPOTTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. ^ STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS IN CASE A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH IS ISSUED DURING THE AFTERNOON. VALLIER-TALBOT
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 10:02 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
MAZ002>024-501>504-RIZ001>007-501-502-CTZ002>004-NHZ011-012-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 935 AM EDT THU SEP 14 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SUNSHINE WILL BREAK OUT ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND THIS MORNING. ALONG WITH THE MUGGY...UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. NWS SKYWARN SPOTTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING (WEATHER CONDITIONS. ^ STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS IN CASE A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH IS ISSUED DURING THE AFTERNOON. VALLIER-TALBOT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 46 min |
| Sep 14, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 52 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.