Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- June 13, 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, Bernardston
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 42.667, -72.550
Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, June 13, 2005
Thunderstorm produced severe winds, which brought down trees over Bernardston.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.
Thunderstorm produced severe winds, which brought down trees over Bernardston.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 1:55 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:55 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 255 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT)... UPCOMING. && .LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)... BACKDOOR FRONT LIES ACROSS NEW ENGLAND WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. BOTH ETA AND GFS SHOW A WAVE ALONG THE FRONT AND OVER GEORGES BANK...WHICH COULD PRODUCE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL CIRCULATION TO KEEP COOLER TEMPS IN THE EAST. IN THE CT VALLEY HOWEVER IT WOULD SEEM TOUGHER TO STAY COOL...EVEN AN EAST WIND WOULD BE SUBJECT TO DOWNSLOPE WARMING. BUT THE FORECAST OF 91 IN THE ETA MOS SEEMS TOO MUCH. WILL GO WITH A 50-50 MODEL BLEND... WHICH KEEPS THE EAST COAST AROUND 70 AND WARMS THE CT VALLEY INTO THE 80S. WITH LOW PRESSURE ALOFT AND AT THE SURFACE...WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LIFTED INDICES ARE SUBZERO IN THE WEST WEDNESDAY...AND TQ INDEX IS UNSTABLE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...SO WILL ADD A CHANCE OF THUNDER DURING THESE TIMES. THE UPPER LOW LINGERS OVERHEAD DURING THE WEEKEND WITH LINGERING COLD POOL. WILL GO WITH DIURNAL CHANCE POPS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. HIGH PRESSURE OVERHEAD MONDAY...SO THE FORECAST IS DRY. WITH THE COLD POOL MOVING OFF BY THIS TIME AND TEMPERATURES ALOFT CLIMBING BACK TO AROUND 13C...MAX TEMPERATURES SHOULD RECOVER INTO THE LOW TO MID 80S. && .AVIATION... UPCOMING. && .MARINE... SHORT TERM UPCOMING. AT 18Z THE 6 HOUR FORECAST CONTINUED THE TREND OF OVERPLAYING THE WAVE HEIGHTS. SO FOR THE LONG TERM WE TOOK 75 PERCENT OF THE WNA FORECAST WAVE VALUES. THE EASTERN WATERS MAY SEE MARGINAL SMALL CRAFT VALUES WEDNESDAY...BUT OVERALL WINDS AND WAVES SHOULD REMAIN BELOW CRITERIA THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .BOX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CT...NONE. MA...NONE. NH...NONE. RI...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && NEAR TERM...MCJ SHORT TERM/AVIATION...DRAG LONG TERM...WTB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 11:18 AM EST, 3 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1218 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-141015- BARNSTABLE MA-BLOCK ISLAND RI-BRISTOL RI-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- CHESHIRE NH-DUKES MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN FRANKLIN MA- EASTERN HAMPDEN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH- EASTERN KENT RI-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-HARTFORD CT- NANTUCKET MA-NEWPORT RI-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA- NORTHWEST MIDDLESEX MA-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI- SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA- SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-SUFFOLK MA-TOLLAND CT- WASHINGTON RI-WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-WESTERN ESSEX MA- WESTERN FRANKLIN MA-WESTERN HAMPDEN MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- WESTERN KENT RI-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-WINDHAM CT- 1218 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE... MASSACHUSETTS EAST OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT...AND ALL OF RHODE ISLAND. .DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ESPECIALLY FROM THE MONADNOCKS IN SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE THROUGH THE EAST SLOPES OF THE BERKSHIRES. ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. IF SEVERAL STORMS TRAVERSE THE SAME AREA...KNOWN AS TRAINING OF ECHOES...LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONALLY...THERE IS SMALL CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING MARGINALLY DAMAGING WIND WEST OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER BETWEEN 430 PM AND 830 PM. STORMS SHOULD BE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)... THE REMNANTS OF ARLENE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION VERY LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY BRINGING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. LATEST FORECASTS SUGGEST THE GREATEST THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE FROM SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA BUT THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL LIKELY OCCUR ACROSS NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... WHILE FORMAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY...SPOTTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD SEND REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2 INCHES OR GREATER...OR ANY FLOODING...AND/OR DAMAGE TO LIMBS FROM WIND...TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LATE TODAY. DRAG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:28 PM EST, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 328 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 MAZ003-NHZ011-132030- CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN FRANKLIN MA- 328 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005 AT 326 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL 3 MILES WEST OF NORTHFIELD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRATTLEBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY RESULT IN POOR DRAINAGE STREET FLOODING. FRANK
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 13 to 14, 2005
- Flash Flood in New York, June 13 to 14, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 13, 2005
- Flash Flood and Hail in Illinois, June 13 to 14, 2005
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in New York, June 13, 2005
- Flood and Hail in Texas, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 13, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 13, 2005
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 13, 2005
- Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 13, 2005
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5459693.