Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 22, 2000, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berkshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
408 WUUS51 KALY 222126 SVRALB MAC003-222200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 525 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BARRINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOUSATONIC AT 530 PM EDT... LEE AT 550 PM EDT... 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LENOX AT 555 PM EDT. * LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY IN THIS STORM. $$ LAT...LON 4219 7357 4206 7340 4230 7302 4246 7324
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 Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 230 PM PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 WRKZFP AVLB. .DISC... ONE CLDFNT IS SLIPG OFF THE COAST ATTM. 2NDRY CLDFNT STL UPSTRM...OVR ERN GRTLKS. POTENT SHT WV N...LARGER CAPES S. FORTUNATELY IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT THE TWAIN SHOULD MEET. CLDFNT WL CRS OUR AREA THIS EVE WITH LTL OR NO FANFARE. STL HV SCT TO WDLY SHRAS OUT THERE. (ALHTOUGH VILS ARE TRNDG DWNWRD). ONE RUMBLE OF THUNDER NR DELMAR BUT NOT CLD 2 GRND STRIKES IN AWIPS...(XCPT IN RUTLAND CNTY VT). MORE STRIKES N OF THE CAN BRDR (WITH THE POTENT SHT WV). WL LV HOWEVER...THE PROVERBIAL THROUGH ERLY EVE PD IN FOR TON. IN COMING SHFT CAN TAKE WHENVER THEY DEEM NECESSARY. OTWX NICE WEATHER COMING UP FOR A FEW DAYS. SFC HI PRES BUILDS OVR SRN CAN AND CREST OVR NY BY EARLY SAT. HI STRENGTHENS AND IT HITS THE COAST WHICH SHOULD ENSURE AT LST TWO NICE DAYS IN A ROW. CAN WE GO THREE DAYS WITHOUT RAIN? WE HV NOT DONE THIS SINCE MAY 30-JUN1. WOULDNT BEAT ON IT...BUT WE MAY SQUEEZE OUT MOST OF SUN...AS HI IS SLW TO YIELD TO THE NXT CLDFNT. THIS WOULD ONLY BE THE 2ND COMPLETELY DRY WEEKEND SINCE SPRNG BEGAN (IRONICALLY OTR ONE WAS MEM DAY). WL GO CHC LT FOR SUN...THEN ALL DAY MON. BY TUES...NXT TROUGH DIGS IN...NWRLY FLW AND RESULTANT HI SHOULD BE DRY. NO HEAT WAVES IN SITE. WL GO CLS TO FWC POPS TON. HOWEVER BASED ON FRHT61...ETA H8 TMPS...AND WET GROUND WL GO ABT A CAT LOER MST PLACES ON FRI. WL ALSO GO A CAT LOER FRI NITE AND SAT. (FORECAST HIS A BLND OF THE FWC AND COOLER FANS). .ALY...NONE. HWJIV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
MAZ001-CTZ001-NYZ032-033-039>043-047>054-058>061-063>066-VTZ013-014- 222300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1248 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN ADIRONDACKS AND LAKE GEORGE REGION WITH A FEW STORMS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS... THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND CAN EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL MAINLY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN. A COLD FRONT OVER THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW ENGLAND THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF IT...WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL BRING A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. RELATIVELY STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS NORTHERN NEW YORK THIS AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN SOME THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SEVERE LIMITS IN THIS AREA. STAY TUNED TO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES...POSSIBLE WATCHES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.