Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 28, 2007Essex County, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2007, 12:55 PM EDT for Essex County, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 50 min. 2 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
Jul 28, 2007, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2007, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Essex County, MA, Middlesex County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 28, 1:26 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGBoxford, MATRESS DOWN ON DONA AND MIDDLETOWN ROADS BLOCKING ROADWAY
Jul 28, 1:29 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGBoxford, MATREES AND WIRES DOWN ON TOPSFIELD ROAD

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2007-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 960 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2007-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
960 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBOX 281655
SVRBOX
MAC009-017-281745-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0113.070728T1655Z-070728T1745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1255 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ESSEX COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
  EAST CENTRAL MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 1254 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTH READING...
  OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LYNN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MIDDLETON BY 105 PM EDT...
  BOXFORD AND TOPSFIELD BY 120 PM EDT...
  BOXFORD BY 125 PM EDT...
  GEORGETOWN BY 135 PM EDT...
  ROWLEY BY 140 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4281 7096 4272 7080 4249 7109 4256 7117
TIME...MOT...LOC 1655Z 222DEG 16KT 4257 7108

$$

WTB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 9:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester31 min
Jul 28, 11:25 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchBOXHampden4 hr
Jul 28, 1:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX59 min
Jul 28, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXEssex55 min
Jul 28, 2:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX65 min
Jul 28, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXMiddlesex, Worcester56 min
Jul 28, 4:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX56 min
Jul 28, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXEssex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk41 min
Jul 28, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX91 min
Jul 28, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNorfolk, Plymouth38 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.