Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 28, 2001Hampshire County, Worcester County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 4:52 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 23 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: May 28, 2001, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA

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 28, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

543 
WUUS51 KBOX 282053
SVRBOX
MAC015-027-282115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
452 PM EDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
  EAST CENTRAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT.

* AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER QUABBIN RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 13 MILES 
  EAST OF AMHERST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE TEMPLETON AND
  HUBBARDSTON.

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

WTB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	40 min
May 28, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	32 min
May 28, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampshire, Worcester	40 min
May 28, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	19 min
May 28, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	9 min
May 28, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	50 min
May 28, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	12 min
May 28, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.