Alert archive / Massachusetts / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2000, 4:21 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 19 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2000, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 4:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Berkshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsfield, MA | |
| Jun 2, 4:41 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Pittsfield, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:15 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 60 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
- 2238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KALY 022022 TORALB MAC003-022045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 421 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 440 PM EDT * AT 416 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INIDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CENTRAL BERKSHIRE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4252 7324 4234 7328 4232 7307 4249 7307
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 4:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.