Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2001, 3:50 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 10, 2001, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 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 19:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Chesterfield, MA | |
| Jul 10, 4:35 PM EDT | Hail 1 | South Amherst, 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 10, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KBOX 101949
SVRBOX
MAC015-102030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
350 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING NORTHAMPTON
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT.
* AT 348 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WORTHINGTON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF ADAMS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WILLIAMSBURG...
HATFIELD...HADLEY...GOSHEN...CUMMINGTON AND CHESTERFIELD.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
JN/ADThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 38 min |
| Jul 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 47 min |
| Jul 10, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk, Worcester | 44 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.