Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2016, 5:54 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 51 min. 7 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 22, 2016, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2016, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Chesterfield, MA | TREE AND WIRES DOWN ON PARTRIDGE RD. |
| Jul 22, 6:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Chesterfield, MA | TREES AND WIRES DOWN ON IRELAND STREET |
| Jul 22, 6:28 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Northampton, MA | SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS DOWN ON DAMON RD. |
| Jul 22, 6:38 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Northampton, MA | SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS DOWN ON DAMON RD. |
| Jul 22, 6:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Northampton, MA | TREES DOWN ON KEARNEY RD. |
| Jul 22, 6:43 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hadley, MA | TREES AND WIRES DOWN ON ROCKY HILL RD. |
| Jul 22, 6:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Hadley, MA | TREES AND WIRES DOWN ON ROCKY HILL RD. |
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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
029
WUUS51 KBOX 222154
SVRBOX
MAC013-015-222245-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0047.160722T2154Z-160722T2245Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
554 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
WESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 553 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BECKET...OR
14 MILES EAST OF GREAT BARRINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WESTFIELD...HOLYOKE...NORTHAMPTON...AGAWAM...WEST SPRINGFIELD...
SOUTH HADLEY...EASTHAMPTON...SOUTHWICK...SOUTHAMPTON...HADLEY...
HATFIELD...WILLIAMSBURG...HUNTINGTON...RUSSELL...WESTHAMPTON...
GRANVILLE...CHESTER...BLANDFORD...CHESTERFIELD AND WORTHINGTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4215 7303 4227 7300 4231 7300 4231 7303
4233 7306 4238 7307 4239 7305 4238 7301
4246 7299 4235 7257 4203 7267 4214 7307
4215 7307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 283DEG 29KT 4227 7310
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
FRANK3 follow-up statements
080
WWUS51 KBOX 222214
SVSBOX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
614 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
MAC013-015-222245-
/O.CON.KBOX.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160722T2245Z/
HAMPSHIRE MA-HAMPDEN MA-
614 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTIES...
AT 613 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
CHESTERFIELD... OR 9 MILES WEST OF NORTHAMPTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WESTFIELD...HOLYOKE...NORTHAMPTON...AGAWAM...WEST SPRINGFIELD...
SOUTH HADLEY...EASTHAMPTON...SOUTHWICK...SOUTHAMPTON...HADLEY...
HATFIELD...WILLIAMSBURG...HUNTINGTON...RUSSELL...WESTHAMPTON...
GRANVILLE...CHESTER...BLANDFORD...CHESTERFIELD AND WORTHINGTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4215 7303 4227 7300 4228 7298 4230 7298
4233 7299 4239 7299 4238 7301 4244 7293
4235 7257 4203 7267 4214 7307 4215 7307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 293DEG 30KT 4235 7286
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
FRANK053
WWUS51 KBOX 222225
SVSBOX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
625 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
MAC013-015-222245-
/O.CON.KBOX.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160722T2245Z/
HAMPSHIRE MA-HAMPDEN MA-
625 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM EDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTIES...
AT 625 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
WESTHAMPTON...OR OVER NORTHAMPTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WESTFIELD...HOLYOKE...NORTHAMPTON...AGAWAM...WEST SPRINGFIELD...
SOUTH HADLEY...EASTHAMPTON...SOUTHAMPTON...HADLEY...HATFIELD...
WILLIAMSBURG...HUNTINGTON...RUSSELL...WESTHAMPTON...BLANDFORD...
CHESTERFIELD...GOSHEN AND MONTGOMERY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING
KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
&&
LAT...LON 4214 7285 4217 7292 4219 7290 4222 7288
4225 7287 4235 7285 4241 7281 4235 7257
4207 7266 4209 7274 4211 7280
TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 283DEG 29KT 4233 7273
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
FRANK875
WWUS51 KBOX 222234
SVSBOX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
634 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
MAC013-222244-
/O.CAN.KBOX.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160722T2245Z/
HAMPDEN MA-
634 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4220 7276 4232 7277 4239 7275 4235 7257
4223 7261 4223 7262 4228 7260 4229 7261
4228 7263 4223 7265 4221 7269 4218 7269
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 283DEG 29KT 4231 7263
$$
MAC015-222245-
/O.CON.KBOX.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-160722T2245Z/
HAMPSHIRE MA-
634 PM EDT FRI JUL 22 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM EDT
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY...
AT 634 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHAMPTON...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOLYOKE...NORTHAMPTON...SOUTH HADLEY...EASTHAMPTON...SOUTHAMPTON...
HADLEY...HATFIELD...WILLIAMSBURG AND WESTHAMPTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING
KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
&&
LAT...LON 4220 7276 4232 7277 4239 7275 4235 7257
4223 7261 4223 7262 4228 7260 4229 7261
4228 7263 4223 7265 4221 7269 4218 7269
TIME...MOT...LOC 2234Z 283DEG 29KT 4231 7263
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
FRANKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire, Worcester | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampshire, Worcester | 20 min |
| Jul 22, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden, Worcester | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester | 48 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.