Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 3, 2000Franklin County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 5:03 PM EDT for Franklin County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2000, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 3, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 696 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
696 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

017 
WUUS51 KBOX 032103
SVRBOS
MAC011-032145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
503 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING GREENFIELD

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT.

* AT 501 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF HAWLEY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ADAMS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SHELBURNE...MONTAGUE...
  HEATH...DEERFIELD...COLRAIN...CHARLEMONT AND BUCKLAND.

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

$$
GF/AD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.