Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 12:17 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 43 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
- May 24, 2004, 12:17 PM EDT (16:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
979
WUUS51 KBOX 241617
SVRBOX
MAC013-015-241700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1217 PM EDT MON MAY 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...NORTHAMPTON...AMHERST
* UNTIL 100 PM EDT
* AT 1216 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
MIDDLEFIELD...OR ABOUT NEAR PITTSFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CUMMINGTON...WORTHINGTON AND PLAINFIELD BY 1230 PM EDT
CHESTERFIELD BY 1235 PM EDT
GOSHEN BY 1240 PM EDT
WILLIAMSBURG BY 1245 PM EDT
HATFIELD BY 1250 PM EDT
AMHERST AND 6 MILES NORTH OF HADLEY BY 1255 PM EDT
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK
SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 4258 7335 4238 7336 4220 7294 4225 7255
4239 7250 4244 7279 4253 7293
$$
VALLEE/STRAUSSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 33 min |
| May 24, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 51 min | |
| May 24, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 60 min | |
| May 24, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 60 min | |
| May 24, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 27 min |
| May 24, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 58 min |
| May 24, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 46 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.