Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Albany, NY

July 1, 2001Berkshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2001, 1:53 PM EDT for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 82 min. 4 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: Jul 1, 2001, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 82 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Berkshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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
Jul 1, 2:54 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cheshire, MA
Jul 1, 2:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams, MA
Jul 1, 2:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	North Adams, MA
Jul 1, 3:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Savoy, 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
Jul 1, 10:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KALY 011753
SVRALY

MAC003-011915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
153 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BERKSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 144 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANCOCK...OR ABOUT 8
  MILES EAST OF TROY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW ASHFORD AND PITTSFIELD AT 200 PM EDT
  WILLIAMSTOWN AND CHESHIRE AT 205 PM EDT
  NORTH ADAMS AND ADAMS AT 210 PM EDT
  FLORIDA AND SAVOY AT 215 PuM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY
RAIN. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER NOW.

$$

What 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 Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 11:15 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 11:15 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1115 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001

ANOTHER QUICK UPDT TO ADD WW 486 TO BAL OF DIST XCP
EXTRM SRN...WITH SMALL OVERLAP. SCT TSTMS ALG 20NNW KRUT-
KN66 ATTM...MORE CONVECTION INVOF CDFNT ALG LK ERIE.

.ALY...NY ERN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 200 PM EDT
                ZONES 32 33 38 42
                SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 400 PM EDT
                ZONES 39>43  47>54 58>61
 VT EXTRM SRN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 4 PM ZONES 13 14
 MA EXTRM WRN...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TIL 4 PM ZONE 1
        CT NW...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 1, 12:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1215 PM EDT SUN JUL 01 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1211 PM    SPEIGLETOWN               NY   .88 INCH HAIL
07/01/01   RENSSELAER

Local storm report, Jul 1, 12:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1238 PM EDT SUN JUL 01 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 t
1200 PM    LATHAM                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
07/01/01   ALBANY                         SEVERAL TREES DOWN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Berkshire	73 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.