Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2000, 3:10 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 35 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 26, 2000, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:21 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Pelham, MA | |
| Jun 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hardwick, 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 nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 261911 SVRBOS MAC015-027-261945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 310 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS EAST CENTRAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 345 PM EDT. * AT 308 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PELHAM...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF AMHERST...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE PETERSHAM AND BARRE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DRAGV
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 3:04 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:04 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 300 PM MON JUN 26 2000 CURNT MAPS SHOW SML UVM..HI DWPRS INTO 70S AND SML PVA. THIS SHUD BE ENUF TO PROMOTE AIMASS TYPE TRW AT LEAST SO 30-40 PC CHC TRW IS FCST. OVRNGT MOR OF THE SAME ALTHO FAR AHD OF CDFNT GUD CHC TRW WITH UPR LVL COOLING AND AGAIN SML PVA CNTR. FLORIDA TYPE HUMIDITY OVNGT SO SHWRS WUD BE WELCOME BY MOST. WITH LACK OF NEW GUIDANCE TUE APPEARS ABOUT UNCHANGD WITH CDFNT SUPPLYING LIFT EXTNSV MOISTURE AND RSPCTBLE PVA CNTR RIGHT ACRS MA CT AT 18Z. SO BEST CHC TRW YET...OF COURSE OF THE STGR VARIETY THAN TDA. BY TUE NGT FNT PASSES AND NEWENG NATURAL AIRCOND ARRIVES WITH COOL HI AND MUCH DRIER DEWPTS. .BOX...NONE. THF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 49 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.