Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 8:56 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 49 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 25, 2000, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 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 00:55 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 25, 9:06 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Huntington, MA | |
| Jun 25, 9:06 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Tolland, 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 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1426 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 260057
SVRBOS
MAC013-015-260145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
856 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING NORTHAMPTON
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT.
* AT 854 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESTER...OR ABOUT 18
MILES SOUTHEAST OF PITTSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WORTHINGTON...
WILLIAMSBURG...WESTHAMPTON...SOUTHAMPTON...SOUTH HADLEY...
RUSSELL...MONTGOMERY...MIDDLEFIELD...HUNTINGTON...HOLYOKE...
HATFIELD...HADLEY...GRANBY...GOSHEN...EASTHAMPTON...CHESTERFIELD
AND BLANDFORD.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUuGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
DRV/RMTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire, Worcester | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 45 min |
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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.