Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 4:56 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
- May 31, 2002, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Worcester County, MA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Winchendon, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:15 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 162 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS51 KBOX 312056
SVRBOX
MAC027-312145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
455 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING LEOMINSTER...FITCHBURG
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT.
* AT 452 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ATHOL...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
TEMPLETON...WINCHENDON AND HUBBARDSTON AROUND 500 PM EDT
GARDNER...ASHBURNHAM AND WESTMINSTER AROUND 505 PM EDT
FITCHBURG...LEOMINSTER AND PRINCETON AROUND 510 PM EDT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF
DOWNING TREES IN GREENFIELD. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND.
$$
GAF/AEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 38 min |
| May 31, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 50 min |
| May 31, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 64 min |
| May 31, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 26 min |
| May 31, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 85 min | |
| May 31, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 21 hr | |
| May 31, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin | 48 min |
| May 31, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 88 min | |
| May 31, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 21 hr |
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.