Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 1, 2001Franklin County, Worcester County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2001, 3:24 PM EDT for Franklin County, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 66 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: Jul 1, 2001, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, MA, Worcester County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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, 3:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Greenfield, MA
Jul 1, 3:32 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Athol, MA
Jul 1, 4:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Fitchburg, 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
Jul 1, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBOX 011924
SVRBOX

MAC011-027-012030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
324 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING FITCHBURG
  EAST CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT.

* AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ORANGE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF
  GREENFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WINCHENDON...WARWICK...
  ROYALSTON...GARDNER...ERVING...ATHOL AND ASHBURNHAM.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BOTH DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL
LARGE ENOUGH TO CAUSE SERIOUS INJURY AND SMASHED WINDOWS. TORRENTIAL 
RAINFALL MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING.

$$

NOTCHEY
VALLE[E

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Norfolk	45 min
Jun 30, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	30 min
Jul 1, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	43 min
Jul 1, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex	47 min
Jul 1, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex	38 min
Jul 1, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Worcester	52 min
Jul 1, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex	48 min

Nearby

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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.