Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1998, 4:25 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 65 min. 3 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 29, 1998, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1998, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkshire County, MA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cheshire, MA | |
| May 29, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Great Barrington, MA | |
| May 29, 5:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Monterey, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
903 WUUS1 KALB 292024 RRA SVRALB MAC003-292130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 425 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 425 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO BERKSHIRE COUNTY...ESPECIALLY NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE AND HAIL. TAKE COVER NOW * THE STRONGEST SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... JUST SOUTHWEST OF WILLIAMSTOWN AT 435 PM ADAMS AT 445 PM PITTSFIELD AT 450 PM 7 MILES NORTH OF WINDSOR AT 455 PM LEE AT 505 PM IF YOU LIVE IN THESE AREAS BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. |42.713 73.504 |42.670 73.286 |42.627 73.069 |42.583 72.851 |42.540 72.633 BLAES /NWSFO ALY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.