Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 28, 2002Franklin County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2002, 1:47 PM EDT for Franklin County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 28 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, 2002, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2002-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 249 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2002-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBOX 281747
SVRBOX
MAC011-281815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
147 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT.

* AT 145 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MONROE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF NORTH
  ADAMS...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROWE AROUND 155 PM EDT
  HEATH AROUND 210 PM EDT
  CHARLEMONT...HAWLEY AND BUCKLAND AROUND 215 PM EDT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. MOVE 
INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXHampshire48 min
May 28, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXHampden27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.