Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT for Norfolk County, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 38 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 27, 2000, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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 27, 3:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dorchester, MA | |
| Jun 27, 3:21 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Quincy, 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 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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 271856 COR
SVRBOS
MAC021-025-271930-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
252 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN NORFOLK COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING BROOKLINE...QUINCY
SOUTHERN SUFFOLK COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING BOSTON
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT.
* AT 250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BROOKLINE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS QUINCY BETWEEN 3 AND 330 PM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL A^ND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
CORRECTED TIME FOR MOVEMENT ACROSS QUINCY
RT/GFWhat 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 27, 9:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 9:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 950 AM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000 SFC FNT SETS BTWN UCA AND ALB AND CLDS EXTND BAC FM BDL TO ERI LEAVING E MA IN STGST SUN. WE SEE NO PVA TDA BUT SOM VVM ON AVN ACRS CWA 18-22Z. MOR 70 DEG DWPTS AS YSTDY AND SPC SHOWS CHC SVR SO WE AWAIT AFTN HTNG AND TRW. FNT SHUD ONLY MAKE IT ACK TO VIRGINIA BY WED MORN SO LK FOR SLO IMPVMT OVRNGT. WED MAY HAV SML WV WHICH BRNGS PRECIP TO CAPE AND CLDS TO OTHER AREAS BUT CURRENT FCST WL CONT DRY. JUNE SYNOPTICS TYPICALLY GET NEBULOUS. BY THU RH DRIES OUT AND VRY WK HI WL BRING CLRG AND EXTNSV CBREEZES. .BOX...SCA ALL MARINE ZONES. THF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:48 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
248 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 PM LINCOLN MA WIND DAMAGE
06/27/00 MIDDLESEX 8-10 INCH DIAMETER TREES
DOWN PER AMATEUR RADIO.
0218 PM WOBURN MA WIND DAMAGE
06/27/00 MIDDLESEX WIRES DOWN PER AMATEUR
RADIO.
0225 PM GEORGETOWN MA WIND DAMAGE
06/27/00 ESSEX TREE DOWN BLOCKING RT 97
PER AMATEUR RADIO.
0236 PM WENHAM MA WIND DAMAGE
06/27/00 ESSEX 8-10 INCH DIAMTER TREES
3 DOWN PER AMATEUR RADIO.The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk, Worcester | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk, Plymouth | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 38 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.