(2) Meteorologists at work at the National Weather National Weather Service's Taunton office, talks about the June 1 Radar is so sensitive it can see or record debris being thrown skyward by a major tornadoĬUTLINE: (1) Robert Thompson, meteorologist-in-charge for the When the storm went over Monson and Brimfield, the radar showed aĭebris ball - something forecasters in the Taunton office had never seen The meteorological fuse in the atmosphere that would lead to a tornado Massachusetts, led forecasters to come to one inescapable conclusion. Guidance and radar that showed storms gathering strength in Western High temperature, rapidly rising humidity, the severe storm parameter Massachusetts, causing the temperature to zoom toward 90 degrees. Than I had seen since any time I'd been here."Īt midafternoon, the sun came out in full force in Central Of tornadoes and possibly significant tornadoes was much, much higher Field who was the office's storm coordinator thatĪfternoon. "The number for a potential tornado got up to a four," Field saidīy early afternoon, he was seeing a number he had never seen before in In numbers, and Warning Coordination Meteorologist Glenn A. The Supercell Composite measures the risk of a significant tornado Thompson called an "extremeĪmount" of instability in the air, something that would allowĬlouds to grow to a height capable of creating a tornado. Okla., that measures storm predictors at various levels of theĪtmosphere, showed two areas of major concern.įirst, winds were blowing from the southeast near the surface andįrom the southwest high in the atmosphere - a phenomenon that wouldĬause the spin in the atmosphere that would form three tornadoes later National Weather Service's Storms Prediction Center in Norman, For example, aįorecasting product called the Supercell Composite, developed by the Unusually severe weather outbreak could be on the way. Other tools used by forecasters increased the fear that an Tornadoes, but to say there would be an EF-3 tornado that would be on "We knew there were going to major storms, possibly some Weather ingredients were there and that it would be a rough, potentially Unlike most thunderstorms that visitĬentral Massachusetts, a supercell thunderstorm is a rotating storm thatĬan spawn a tornado if the correct meteorological recipe is in place.īy late morning, it was becoming increasingly clear that the Thunderstorms could be in the area later in the afternoon," said "The radar indicated there was a good chance that supercell They could tap the vast amounts of energy in the atmosphere that day toĪllow them to reach levels of severity seen in this part of the country Maine to Pennsylvania, the storms that were forming in the late morningĪnd early afternoon of June 1 were far enough away from each other that People - where there was a solid line of storms that stretched from The 58th anniversary of the infamous Worcester tornado that killed 94 Unlike the squall line that slashed through the area on June 9. In East-Central New York state, and the Adirondack mountains in Office, said by 11 that Wednesday morning, thunderstorms started forming Thompson, the meteorologist-in-charge of the NWS Taunton Service office led forecasters to think it could be a day that many Predictors that flow nonstop into the building that houses the weather Myles Standish Industrial Park knew a week before that June 1 could be aĭay when severe weather might hit Central Massachusetts.īy late that morning, a look at the radars and severe weather TAUNTON - Forecasters in the National Weather Service office in the
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