Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2011, 4:42 PM EDT for Franklin County, Hampshire County, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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 1, 2011, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 1, 5:15 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Shutesbury, MA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 1, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
833 WUUS51 KBOX 012042 SVRBOX MAC011-015-027-012145- /O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0094.110801T2042Z-110801T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 442 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS... SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... EAST CENTRAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHUTESBURY...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF AMHERST...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATEDCOUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. GET TO SAFE SHELTER NOW... INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING OR IN A VEHICLE. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. DRIVERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR PONDING OF WATER AND AVOID FLOODED ROADS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND. && LAT...LON 4247 7225 4237 7233 4247 7253 4252 7248 TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 283DEG 12KT 4249 7247 $$ FIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 12:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 1:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 1:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester | 19 min |
| Aug 1, 1:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 35 min |
| Aug 1, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 116 min |
| Aug 1, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 3:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Worcester | 17 min |
| Aug 1, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin | 50 min |
| Aug 1, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 3:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 113 min |
| Aug 1, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 4:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 82 min |
| Aug 1, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 67 min |
| Aug 1, 4:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Hampden | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Worcester | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin | 23 min |
| Aug 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 46 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.