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Special Marine Warning 71, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 2, 2002

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special marine warning at Aug 2, 2002, 3:02 PM EDT. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 2002, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special marine warning went out, 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 this special marine warning went out at Aug 2, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1115 AM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002

...ANTICIPATING FAIRLY ACTIVE AFTN/EVE FOR CONVCTN...

LATE AM UPDATE HAS TAKEN MAX TEMPS DOWN A LTL OVR INTERIOR MA.
OTRW..NO CHNGS FOR NOW.

AFTN/EVE CONVCTN...WIND FIELDS ARE RELATIVELY LGT BUT AT LEAST MOD
INSTBLTY...SBCAPES ON 12Z MESOETA 1500-2500 AND 06Z AVN TT IN LO50S
ACRS CT AND MUCH OF WRN/CNTL MA.  PREFRONTAL TROF ENHANCE LO
LVL MOISTURE CONVG LTR THIS AFTN.  06Z AVN AND 12Z MESOETA BOTH SHOW
BAND OF UVM THAT SHIFTS TWD S COAST AFT 00Z. BEST INSTBLTY AND
FORCING APPRS TO FOCUS ACRS CT...SW/S CNTL MA...INTO WRN RI.
ALTHO STGR WIND SPDS TO N...HEL VALUES ARND 150 ACRS CT DURG MAX
HTG...PSBLY AIDING A FEW CELLS.  DWPTS AT 15Z ARND 70 LO/MID CT VLY.
BELIEVE WILL SEE CSDBL CONVECTION THRUOUT CWA THIS AFTN/ERLY EVE
AND THEN PERSISTING ACRS S COAST LATE INTO NGT AS FNT
DEACCELERATES. ALTHO WIND FIELDS NOT THAT STG...BELIEVE ENUF
INSTBLTY PERHAPS AIDED BY SOME LO LVL HEL FOR ISOLD SVR...SPCLY CT
AND ADJ AREAS OF MA/RI. ANTICIPATING NEED FOR SKYWARN COVERAGE ARND
18Z.

TAKEN 1ST CUT AT DAYS 4-7 IN DATABASE...WILL PRBLY GO DRY THRU PRD.
ENSEMBLES SUG WK FRONT PSBL FRI 8/9...BUT SIGNATURE LOOKS WK AND
MID/UPR FLOW LOOKS TO BE DRY WNW.

.BOX...
CT...NONE.
MA...NONE.
NH...NONE.
RI...NONE.
MARINE...NONE.

THOMPSON/CARBONE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 11:40 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
MAZ002-003-021830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
145 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002

AT 144 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WITH SMALL HAIL IN FRANKLIN COUNTY OVER COLRAIN...OR
ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40
MPH...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NEAR

  GREENFIELD AROUND 150 PM
  GILL AND DEERFIELD AROUND 155 PM
  MONTAGUE AROUND 200 PM
  WENDELL AND ERVING AROUND 205 PM
  NEW SALEM AROUND 210 PM

DUNHAM
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:38 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
CTZ002-MAZ004-005-009-011-012-021915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
238 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002

AT 234 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND WESTERN
MASSACHUSETTS.  THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WESTMINSTER...HUNTINGTON...HUBBARDSTON AND FITCHBURG AROUND 245 PM
  TOWNSEND...TOLLAND...OAKHAM AND NEW BRAINTREE AROUND 250 PM
  RUSSELL AND PRINCETON AROUND 255 PM

BELK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX118 min
Aug 2, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX22 hr
Aug 2, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX22 hr
Aug 2, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX61 min
Aug 2, 4:45 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX21 hr

Nearby

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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.