Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1997, 6:18 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 22, 1997, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1997, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Middlesex County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 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 222220 RRA SVRBOS MAC017-222315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 618 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS ...SOUTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY AT 615 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GREAT PLAIN AVENUE IN DEDHAM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE NEWTON...WATERTOWN...WALTHAM AREA BY 645 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. DCY/DRAG
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, Aug 22, 3:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
352 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
334 PM WEYMOUTH MA .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/97 NORFOLK PENNY SIZED HAIL
PER SKYWARN SPOTTER.
FIELDLocal storm report, Aug 22, 3:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATE FROM STORMS ON 8/20/97
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
352 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
F ....COUNTY LOCATION....
334 PM WEYMOUTH MA .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/97 NORFOLK PENNY SIZED HAIL
PER SKYWARN SPOTTER.
FIELDLocal storm report, Aug 22, 3:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
352 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
H ....COUNTY LOCATION....
334 PM WEYMOUTH MA .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/97 NORFOLK PENNY SIZED HAIL
PER SKYWARN SPOTTER.
FIELDLocal storm report, Aug 22, 5:59 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
559 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
334 PM WEYMOUTH MA .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/97 NORFOLK PENNY SIZED HAIL
PER SKYWARN SPOTTER.
420 PM PEMBROKE MA WIND DMAGE
08/22/97 PLYMOUTH LOTS OF BROKEN TREE LIMBS
AND SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
A 40 BY 50 SQUARE FOOT AREA
ABOUT 200 FT INTO THE WOODS
OFF LITTLES AVE. TIME OF
EVENT APPROXIMATE.
DRAGLocal storm report, Aug 22, 5:59 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
559 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
334 PM WEYMOUTH MA .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/97 NORFOLK PENNY SIZED HAIL
PER SKYWARN SPOTTER.
420 PL PEMBROKE MA WIND DAMAGE
08/22/97 PLYMOUTH LOTS OF BROKEN TREE LIMBS
AND SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
A 40 BY 50 SQUARE FOOT AREA
ABOUT 200 FT INTO THE WOODS
OFF LITTLES AVE. TIME OF
EVENT APPROXIMATE.
615 PM WEST ROXBURY MA .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/97 SUFFOLK PENNY SIZED HAIL
PER SKYWARN SPOTTER.
DRAGLocal storm report, Aug 22, 6:01 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
559 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
334 PM WEYMOUTH MA .75 INCH HAIL
08/22/97 NORFOLK PENNY SIZED HAIL
PER SKYWARN SPOTTER.
420 PM PEMBROKE MA WIND D`MAGE
08/22/97 PLYMOUTH LOTS OF BROKEN TREE LIMBS
AND SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
A 40 BY 50 SQUARE FOOT AREA
ABOUT 200 FT TINTO THE WOODS
OFF LITTLES AVE. TIME OF
EVENT APPROXIMATE.
DRAGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 33 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.