Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2003, 7:17 PM EDT for Bristol 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2003, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bristol County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KBOX 132319
SVRBOX
MAC005-132345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
717 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BRISTOL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING FALL RIVER
* UNTIL 745 PM.
* AT 712 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN SEEKONK AND SOUTHERN REHOBOTH
MASSACHUSETTS. THE STORM WAS SLOWLY DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MILES AN HOUR.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SWANSEA AROUND 730 PM
SOMERSET AROUND 740 PM
FALL RIVER AROUND 745 PM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR WIND STRONG ENOUGH TO
KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
LAT...LON 4190 7126 4178 7132 4166 7115 4177 7105The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Worcester | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 93 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 93 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 22 hr | |
| Aug 13, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 22 hr | |
| Aug 13, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 70 min | |
| Aug 13, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 70 min | |
| Aug 13, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 21 hr | |
| Aug 13, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 21 hr | |
| Aug 13, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 21 hr | |
| Aug 13, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.