Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 2, 2000Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 4:21 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 54 min. 5 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: Jun 2, 2000, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 123 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, 4:37 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Worthington Corners, MA
Jun 2, 4:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Chester, MA
Jun 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Leeds, MA	Brief touchdown in Leeds and Pine Brook Farm sections of Northampton
Jun 2, 5:04 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Northampton, MA
Jun 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 90 E	Northampton, 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 109 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBOX 022023
SVRBOS
MAC013-015-022115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
421 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING CHICOPEE
  HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT.

* AT 417 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIDDLEFIELD...OR ABOUT 5
  MILES EAST OF PITTSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WORTHINGTON...
  WILLIAMSBURG...WESTHAMPTON...SOUTHAMPTON...SOUTH HADLEY...
  HOLYOKE...HATFIELD...HADLEY...GRANBY...GOSHEN...EASTHAMPTON AND
  CHESTERFIELD.

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

FN/DCY/WB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Hampshire	49 min
Jun 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	46 min
Jun 2, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	48 min
Jun 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk	43 min
Jun 2, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Suffolk	46 min
Jun 2, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	50 min
Jun 2, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Plymouth	39 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.