Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 24, 2000Dukes County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 9:58 PM EDT for Dukes 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 24, 2000, 9:58 PM EDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Dukes County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

424 
WUUS51 KBOX 250200
SVRBOS
MAC007-250245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
958 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DUKES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING VINEYARD HAVEN

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT.

* AT 954 PM EDT...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE ELIZABETH ISLANDS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE TISBURY...OAK BLUFFS
  AND EDGARTOWN.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

$$
DRV/JL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXBristol55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.