Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 5, 1999Norfolk County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1999, 4:19 PM EDT for Norfolk County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 5, 1999, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 1999, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

County Norfolk County, MA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 5, 4:28 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Bellingham, MA
Aug 5, 4:37 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Bellingham, 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 nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 889 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 5, 3:38 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:38 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
338 PM EDT THU AUG 5 1999

SVR WX HAS AND IS OCCURING THRU PORTIONS OF SNE THIS AFTN. GETTING
LOTS OF LARGE HAIL...A SMATTERING OF DAMAGING WIND AND SOME STREET
FLOODING.  PLS REF LSRBOS.

HAVENT FCST AS MUCH TSTMS AS ID LIKE FOR FRI AFTN BUT 12Z/5 ETA
BUFKIT IS SIMILAR AGAIN AND I THINK THE FRONT COMING DOWN FM NYS WILL
LIGHT UP LATE IN THE DAY WITH POSSIBLE SVR LATE FRI.

ALSO...INDICATIONS FOR A LATE SPRING TYPE SVR WX DAY SUNDAY AS
INTENSIFYING LOW PRES MOVES INTO NEW ENGLAND WITH POSSIBLY PRETTY
STG WIND AND ASSTD HELICITY. HAVE WARMED NCEP DAY 3 TEMPS SUNDAY AND
COORD ALY AND SEF/AVN ON LIKELY POPS FOR SUNDAY IN DECENT WAA TKNS
FIELD.  SML CHC WELL SEE 85-88F IN CT/RI LATE SUN?

.BOX...NONE.

DRAG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 2:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
204 PM EDT THU AUG 05 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0200 PM    SUDBURY                   MA   .75 INCH HAIL
08/05/99   MIDDLESEX                      DIME TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
                                          SUDBURY FLATS

Local storm report, Aug 5, 3:31 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
331 PM EDT THU AUG 05 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0308 PM    GARDNER                   MA   1 INCH HAIL
08/05/99   WORCESTER                      REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0325 PM    FARMINGTON                CT   WIND DAMAGE
08/05/99   HARTFORD                       TREES LIMBS DOWN AROUND
                                          320 PM FARMINGTON

0328 PM    UNIONVILLE                CT   1 INCH HAIL
08/05/99   HARTFORD                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, Aug 5, 3:48 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
348 PM EDT THU AUG 05 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0345 PM    POMFRET                   CT   1.5 INCH HAIL
08/05/99   WINDHAM                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex	42 min
Aug 5, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	40 min
Aug 5, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Norfolk, Plymouth	42 min
Aug 5, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex	51 min
Aug 5, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	49 min
Aug 5, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	46 min
Aug 5, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	46 min
Aug 5, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	43 min
Aug 5, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX		38 min
Aug 5, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	45 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.