Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1998, 2:27 PM EDT for Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 23, 1998, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Suffolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
198 WUUS1 KBOS 231826 RRA SVRBOS ANZ230-250-MAC025-231915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 227 PM EDT THU JUL 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SUFFOLK COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LEXINGTON AND WALTHAM...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * TOWNS IN/NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BOSTON CHELSEA REVERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. GAF/WD
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 23, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
122 PM EDT THU JUL 23 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0112 PM ACTON MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/23/98 MIDDLESEX DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER IN ACTON.Local storm report, Jul 23, 2:19 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
219 PM EDT THU JUL 23 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0112 PM ACTON MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/23/98 MIDDLESEX DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER IN ACTON.
0118 PM EAST LONGMEADOW MA WIND DAMAGE
07/23/98 HAMPDEN TREES DOWNED AS REPORTED
BY POLICE.
0135 PM MONSON MA WIND DAMAGE
07/23/98 HAMPDEN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS
DOWNED REPORTED BY
SKYWARN.
0140 PM SPENCER MA WIND DAMAGE
07/23/98 WORCESTER TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED. REPORTED BY
SKYWARN HAM.
0140 PM SPENCER MA TORNADO
07/23/98 WORCESTER PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN IN SPENCER.
0145 PM DUDLEY MA TORNADO
07/23/98 WORCESTER PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN IN DUDLEY.Local storm report, Jul 23, 2:19 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
219 PM EDT THU JUL 23 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0112 PM ACTON MA .75 INCH HAIL
07/23/98 MIDDLESEX DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTER IN ACTON.
0118 PM EAST LONGMEADOW MA WIND DAMAGE
07/23/98 HAMPDEN TREES DOWNED AS REPORTED
BY POLICE.
0135 PM MONSON MA WIND DAMAGE
07/23/98 HAMPDEN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS
DOWNED REPORTED BY
SKYWARN.
0140 PM SPENCER MA WIND DAMAGE
07/23/98 WORCESTER TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED. REPORTED BY
SKYWARN HAM.
0140 PM SPENCER MA TORNADO
07/23/98 WORCESTER PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN IN SPENCER.
0145 PM DUDLEY MA TORNADO
07/23/98 WORCESTER PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN IN DUDLEY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Worcester | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Worcester | 50 min |
| Jul 23, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 57 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.