Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2008, 4:51 PM EDT for 4 counties in Massachusetts. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 16, 2008, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2008, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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 16, 5:01 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 4 N Belchertown, MA | 4 MILES NORTH OF TOWN CENTER ON RTE 202 |
| Aug 16, 5:15 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Ware, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 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 162051 SVRBOX MAC011-013-015-027-162115- /O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0252.080816T2051Z-080816T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 451 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... NORTHEASTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... SOUTHEASTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 451 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WARE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AMHERST...AND MOVING EAST AT 19 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WARE BY 505 PM EDT... HARDWICK BY 510 PM EDT... WARREN BY 515 PM EDT... LAT...LON 4236 7214 4220 7217 4229 7244 4235 7241 TIME...MOT...LOC 2051Z 283DEG 16KT 4231 7233 $$ NOCERA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 8:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Norfolk | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 55 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 33 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 25 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 30 min | |
| Aug 16, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Plymouth | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 6:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Plymouth | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 54 min | |
| Aug 16, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 33 min | |
| Aug 16, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.