Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1996, 6:29 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1996, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | South Hatfield, MA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 112230 SVRBOS MAC015-112315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 629 PM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS ...WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY AT 6:25 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MIDDLEFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND SHOULD ENTER THE TOWNS OF WORTHINGTON...CHESTERFIELD...AND GOSHEN BY 7 PM. 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. JL
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, May 11, 2:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
RIZ001-002-MAZ012-013-112000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 240 PM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996 ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST RHODE ISLAND... THE STORM AT 239 PM WAS NEAR BURRILLVILLE...HEADED FOR NORTH SMITHFIELD AND WOONSOCKET BY 310 PM. DRAG
Special weather statement, May 11, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
RIZ001-002-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 455 PM EDT SAT MAY 11 1996 ...THERE HAVE BEEN NO CONFIRMED REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE IN RHODE ISLAND THIS AFTERNOON... A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS DID CROSS FAR NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 215 AND 305 PM. THERE WERE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF A TORNADO IN THE NORTH PROVIDENCE AREA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CALLED POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN THE PROVIDENCE...LINCOLN REGION AS WELL AS LARGE MEDIA OUTLETS. NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE OR INJURIES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE ONLY REPORTS OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE FROM THE EAST CENTRAL PORTION OF THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE WHERE PATIO FURNITURE WAS OVERTURNED. A TREE ALSO MAY HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN BY THE WIND BUT THAT TOO IS UNCONFIRMED. LIGHTNING CAUSED A SHED FIRE IN NORTH SMITHFIELD. DRAG
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.