Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 8, 1996Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1996, 6:38 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1996, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 1996-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 153 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 1996-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 082239
SVRBOS
MAC015-082330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
638 PM EDT SAT JUN 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
 
AT 635 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST EAST OF BECKET MOVING INTO WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. THE STORM IS
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO THE SOUTH OF CHESTERFIELD BY 7
PM...THEN TO NEAR NORTHAMPTON BY 730 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...D.EADLY 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.
 
WTB/EVT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXHampden37 min
Jun 8, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin48 min
Jun 8, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNorfolk45 min
Jun 8, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNorfolk32 min
Jun 8, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester45 min
Jun 8, 6:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXFranklin, Hampshire3 hr
Jun 8, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin, Worcester52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.