Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 28, 2002Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2002, 3:27 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 48 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 28, 2002, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 48 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 19:34 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
May 28, 4:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Worthington Corners, 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 nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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.

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBOX 281927
SVRBOX
MAC015-282015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING NORTHAMPTON

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT.

* AT 324 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WORTHINGTON...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES EAST OF PITTSFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CUMMINGTON AROUND 335 PM EDT
  WORTHINGTON AND MIDDLEFIELD AROUND 345 PM EDT
  CHESTERFIELD AND GOSHEN AROUND 355 PM EDT
  WESTHAMPTON AND NORTHAMPTON AROUND 415 PM EDT.

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

$$

BELK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin	28 min
May 28, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2002 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.