Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2003, 6:56 PM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island; Bristol County, Norfolk County, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 49 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 22, 2003, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bristol County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 222256
SVRBOX
MAC005-021-023-RIC007-222345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
656 PM EDT FRI AUG 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
INCLUDING WOONSOCKET
EXTREME SOUTHERN NORFOLK COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING WEYMOUTH
NORTHERN BRISTOL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH AND MANSFIELD
NORTHERN PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
INCLUDING BROCKTON AND MARSHFIELD
* UNTIL 745 PM.
* AT 650 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES WEST OF WOONSOCKET TO
COHASSET...OR FROM 10 MILES WEST OF WOONSOCKET TO 9 MILES EAST OF
WEYMOUTH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
WOONSOCKET AND WHITMAN AROUND 705 PM
MANSFIELD AND HANOVER AROUND 710 PM
PLAINVILLE...PEMBROKE AND HANSON AROUND 715 PM
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH...MARSHFIELD AND EAST BRIDGEWATER AROUND 720 PM
WEST BRIDGEWATER AROUND 725 PM
NORTON AROUND 730 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 4207 7063 4200 7088 4195 7113 4200 7157
4200 7150 4205 7149 4212 7118 4224 7084
4224 7076 4220 7072The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent | 24 min |
| Aug 22, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 44 min |
| Aug 22, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 115 min | |
| Aug 22, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 115 min | |
| Aug 22, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 22 hr | |
| Aug 22, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 22 hr | |
| Aug 22, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester | 65 min |
| Aug 22, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Massachusetts, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rhode Island, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.