Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 6:12 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts; Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 48 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
- Jun 2, 2000, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Worcester County, MA, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Ashburnham, MA | |
| Jun 2, 6:33 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Burrillville, RI |
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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KBOX 022213
SVRBOS
CTC015-MAC027-RIC007-022300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
612 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
SOUTHEASTERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING MILFORD
NORTHEASTERN WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
INCLUDING PUTNAM
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.
* AT 607 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUDLEY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
NORTH OF PUTNAM...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SMITHFIELD...
SCITUATE...NORTH SMITHFIELD...GLOCESTER...FOSTER...BURRILLVILLE...
WHITINSVILLE...WEBSTER...UXBRIDGE...UPTON...SUTTON...OXFORD...
NORTHBRIDGE...MILLVILLE...MILLBURY...MENDON...HOPEDALE...GRAFTON...
DOUGLAS...CHARLTON...BLACKSTONE...WOODSTOCK...THOMPSON AND
KILLINGLY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
FN/DCY/WTB
nThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 54 min |
| 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, 6:17 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 |
| Jun 2, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 44 min | |
| Jun 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Connecticut, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.