Alert archive / Massachusetts / Tornado Warnings in 2000

Tornado Warning 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 2, 2000Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2000, 4:41 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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 2, 2000, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

County Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Leeds, MA	Brief touchdown in Leeds and Pine Brook Farm sections of Northampton
Jun 2, 5:04 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Northampton, MA
Jun 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 90 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
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 103 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KBOX 022042
TORBOS
MAC015-022130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
441 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING CHESTERFIELD...HUNTINGTON...NORTHAMPTON

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER WORTHINGTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF NORTHAMPTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WILLIAMSBURG...
  WESTHAMPTON...SOUTH HADLEY...PELHAM...HATFIELD...HADLEY...GRANBY...
  GOSHEN...EASTHAMPTON...CHESTERFIELD AND BEL CHERTOWN.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM - TAKE COVER NOW IN THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING
DEBRIS WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS.

FN/DCY/WB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	54 min
Jun 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	46 min
Jun 2, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	48 min
Jun 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk	43 min
Jun 2, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Suffolk	46 min
Jun 2, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	50 min
Jun 2, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Plymouth	39 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.