Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 2:23 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 52 min. 4 reports 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
- Jul 9, 1997, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1997, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkshire County, MA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lee, MA | |
| Jul 9, 2:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lee, MA | |
| Jul 9, 3:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Great Barrington, MA | |
| Jul 9, 3:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockbridge, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KALB 091824 RRA SVRALB MAC003-091915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 223 PM EDT WED JUL 9 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS ...BERKSHIRE COUNTY AT 220 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF HOUSATONIC. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR - LEE AT 225 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICDAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. KL/HTS
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
Local storm report, Jul 9, 1:53 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
NEW YORK STATEWIDE POLICE INFORMATION NETWORK
TROOP F
0155PM WED JUL 09 1997
FLPD WLSR APTS FULC FHIG
00878 FILE 28 TOWN OF LLOYD PD NY0555600 JUL 09-97
TO ATTN SURROUNDING AGENCIES
************ R O A D C L O S E D **************
THE FOLLOWING ROAD WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO A TRACTOR-
TRAILER VS NUMEROUS POLES/WIRES. NORTH ROAD WILL BE CLOSED AT INTERSECTION
OF MAIN & NORTH RD TO INTERSECTION OF NORTH RD & GRAND ST.
CENTRAL HUDSON ON SCENE AT THIS TIME / PLEASE ADVISE ALL PERSONS NECESSARY
AUTH SGT SARGENT,W THOMAS 1354 HRS
OPER - THOMAS,MICHAEL J 1355The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 49 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.