Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1996, 6:21 PM EDT for Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 69 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
- Aug 27, 1996, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hampden County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Holyoke, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 53 min |
| Aug 27, 5:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.