Alert archive / Massachusetts / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2017

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 23, 2017Essex County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2017, 2:32 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 17 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
Jun 23, 2017, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2017, 2:49 PM EDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Essex County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2017-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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 2017-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

044 
WUUS51 KBOX 231832
SVRBOX
MAC009-231915-
/O.NEW.KBOX.SV.W.0027.170623T1832Z-170623T1915Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Taunton MA
232 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2017

The National Weather Service in Taunton has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Central Essex County in northeastern Massachusetts...

* Until 315 PM EDT

* At 231 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Hamilton, or
  near Beverly, moving northeast at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Ipswich, Hamilton, Topsfield and Essex. 

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 4272 7076 4270 7076 4267 7070 4261 7088
      4263 7092 4276 7077
TIME...MOT...LOC 1831Z 222DEG 18KT 4265 7086 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Belk
1 follow-up statement
556 
WWUS51 KBOX 231849
SVSBOX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Taunton MA
249 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2017

MAC009-231859-
/O.CAN.KBOX.SV.W.0027.000000T0000Z-170623T1915Z/
Essex MA-
249 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL ESSEX COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
        
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore the warning has been cancelled.

LAT...LON 4272 7076 4270 7076 4267 7070 4261 7088
      4263 7092 4276 7077
TIME...MOT...LOC 1848Z 222DEG 18KT 4272 7078 

$$

Belk

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 1:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBOXEssex, Middlesex, Suffolk47 min
Jun 23, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXEssex, Middlesex, Suffolk64 min
Jun 23, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX57 min
Jun 23, 3:58 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementBOXBarnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk9 hr

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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.