Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 10:33 PM EDT for Bristol County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 47 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
- May 31, 1998, 10:33 PM EDT (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 11:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bristol County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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.
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 31, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 31, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
552 WUUS1 KBOS 010231 RRA SVRBOS MAC005-010320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1033 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BRISTOL MA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 1120 PM EDT * AT 1030 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY... MOVING EAST NEAR 55 MPH. * TOWNS IN/NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... REHOBOTH TO NORTH ATTLEBORO BY 1045 PM BERKLEY TO EASTON BY 1100 PM THIS INTENSE LINE OF STORMS HAS PRODUCED WINDS AS HIGH AS 94 MPH IN WORCESTER MASSACHUSETTS. THE INTENSE WINDS MAY ARRIVE UP TO 20 MINUTES IN ADVANCE OF HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. DRV/JL
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, May 31, 9:43 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
943 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM WEST SPRINGFIELD MA .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 HAMPDEN HAM RADIO OPERATORLocal storm report, May 31, 9:56 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
956 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0945 PM WINDSOR CT 65 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 HARTFORD SPOTTER REPORT...CONFIRMED
BY TREES DOWN PER PD
0951 PM WINDSOR LOCKS CT 61 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 HARTFORD BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL ASOSLocal storm report, May 31, 10:00 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1000 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM WEST SPRINGFIELD MA .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 HAMPDEN
0946 PM CHICOPEE MA .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 HAMPDENLocal storm report, May 31, 10:00 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1000 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0940 PM WEST SPRINGFIELD MA .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 HAMPDEN
0946 PM CHICOPEE MA .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 HAMPDENLocal storm report, May 31, 10:10 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1010 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1008 PM NEW BRAINTREE MA WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 WORCESTER MULTIPLE TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN. DIME
SIZED HAIL ALSO.Local storm report, May 31, 10:17 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1017 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1012 PM WORCESTER MA 94 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 WORCESTER ASOS WIND REPORT. TIME
ESTIMATED AT THIS TIMEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 50 min |
| May 31, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 50 min |
| May 31, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 61 min |
| May 31, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire | 64 min |
| May 31, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 62 min |
| May 31, 10:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Worcester | 35 min |
| May 31, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 66 min |
| May 31, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 45 min |
| May 31, 10:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Suffolk | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.