Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2004, 1:57 PM EDT for Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 63 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2004, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2004, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hampden County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:11 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Wilbraham, MA | |
| Aug 3, 2:11 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Wilbraham, MA | |
| Aug 3, 2:17 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | West Springfield, MA | TWO LARGE TREES FELL DOWN TAKING WIRES DOWN WITH THEM. ONE LARGE TREE FELL ON A HOUSE CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE HOUSE. |
| Aug 3, 2:17 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | West Springfield, MA | TWO LARGE TREES FELL DOWN TAKING WIRES DOWN WITH THEM. ONE LARGE TREE FELL ON A HOUSE CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE HOUSE. |
| Aug 3, 2:17 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | West Springfield, MA | |
| Aug 3, 2:17 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | West Springfield, MA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBOX 031757 SVRBOX MAC013-031900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 157 PM EDT TUE AUG 3 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SPRINGFIELD...CHICOPEE * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 153 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPRINGFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LUDLOW BY 210 PM EDT WILBRAHAM BY 215 PM EDT LAT...LON 4216 7276 4203 7265 4207 7238 4222 7249 $$ FRANK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Hampden | 2 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.