Alert archive / Massachusetts / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 2000, 3:32 AM EDT for Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 10, 2000, 3:32 AM EDT (07:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Plymouth County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:55 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | West Bridgewater, MA | |
| Aug 10, 3:55 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | West Bridgewater, 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KBOX 100733
TORBOS
MAC005-021-023-RIC007-100815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
332 AM EDT THU AUG 10 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
SOUTHERN NORFOLK COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
NORTHWESTERN BRISTOL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING ATTLEBOROUGH...NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH...TAUNTON
NORTHERN PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING BROCKTON
* UNTIL 415 AM EDT.
* AT 328 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER
CUMBERLAND...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE PAWTUCKET...CENTRAL
FALLS...WHITMAN...WEST BRIDGEWATER...STOUGHTON...SCITUATE...
ROCKLAND...RAYNHAM...PLAINVILLE...PEMBROKE...NORWELL...NORTON...
MARSHFIELD...MANSFIELD...KINGSTON...HANSON...HANOVER...HALIFAX...
FOXBOROUGH...EASTON...EAST BRIDGEWATER...DUXBURY...BRIDGEWATER...
AVON AND ABINGTON.
WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN WOONSOCKET.
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.
$$
JF/JDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk | 28 min |
| Aug 10, 3:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk | 43 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.