Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1997, 6:42 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Bennington County, Vermont. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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
- May 1, 1997, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Berkshire County, MA, Bennington County, VT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bennington, VT | A cold front crossed western New England during the afternoon of May 1. This front produced an isolated severe thunderstorm at Bennington, where several trees were downed by the wind. |
| May 1, 7:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Adams, MA | A cold front crossed western New England during the afternoon of May 1. The front produced an isolated severe thunderstorm with hail at Adams in Berkshire County. |
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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 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 KALB 012243 RRA SVRALB MAC003-VTC003-012345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 642 PM EDT THU MAY 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ...NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN VERMONT ...SOUTHERN BENNINGTON COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BERLIN AT 640 PM. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH ACROSS THE COMMUNITIES OF NORTH ADAMS...STAMFORD AND WILLIAMSTOWN. THIS IS A DAMGEROUS SITUATION. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE AND DAMAGING HAIL ALONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS. 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 ROOMB 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. BLAES /NWSFO ALB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Windham | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Vermont, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.