Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2016, 2:52 PM EDT for Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 23 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
- Aug 13, 2016, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2016, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Hampden County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
729
WUUS51 KBOX 131852
SVRBOX
MAC013-131915-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0098.160813T1852Z-160813T1915Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
252 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
* UNTIL 315 PM EDT
* AT 251 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
HAMPDEN...OR 8 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILBRAHAM...PALMER...MONSON...HAMPDEN...WARREN...BRIMFIELD...
HOLLAND AND WALES.
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 4221 7226 4218 7226 4216 7220 4215 7220
4215 7218 4204 7215 4204 7244 4213 7247
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 253DEG 19KT 4209 7238
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
NOCERAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 4:31 AM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | BOX | Hampden | 14 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 28 min | |
| Aug 13, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 2:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Hampden | 66 min |
| Aug 13, 4:09 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Hampden, Middlesex and 4 more | 27 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester | 116 min |
| Aug 13, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 29 min |
| Aug 13, 6:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Norfolk, Worcester | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.