Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 5:49 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 56 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
- May 18, 2000, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 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 21:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Springfield, MA | |
| May 18, 6:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Northampton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
937
WUUS51 KBOX 182149
SVRBOS
MAC013-015-182245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
549 PM EDT THU MAY 18 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING CHICOPEE...SPRINGFIELD
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING NORTHAMPTON
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT.
* AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PITTSFIELD TO GREAT
BARRINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY
OF PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE IN NEW YORK STATE. A WIND GUST
TO 56 MPH WAS RECENTLY REPORTED IN PITTSFIELD BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WORTHINGTON...
HUNTINGTON...NORTHAMPTON...WESTFIELD...AMHERST...AND SPRINGFIELD.
THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BOTH DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL
LARGE ENOUGH TO CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SMASHED WINDOWS.
$$
JWD/DRVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 55 min |
| May 18, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 46 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.