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Special Marine Warning 82, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 16, 2002

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special marine warning at Aug 16, 2002, 7:39 PM EDT. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 16, 2002, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
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 16, 3:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
325 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002

IN SHORT RANGE...AMS VERY UNSTBL DUE TO A COMBINATION OF HI DEW PTS
AND VERY WARM TEMPS, WEAK PVA WITH RATHER MINOR UPR TROF.  HWVR,
CAPES AND SOME OF THE OTHER INSTBY PARAMETERS ARE NOT
REMARKABLE.  TSTMS HAVE BEEN DVLPG NR SNE. EXPECT THEM TO CONT TO
DVLP EWD ACRS NRN CT, CNTRL AND WRN MA, AND SW NH DURG NEXT FEW HRS.
A SVR TSTM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS AREA AND POTENTIAL EXISTS
FOR DAMAGING WIND ASSOCD WITH WET MICROBURSTS.  SFC TROF WL MOV ACRS
THE FCST AREA AROUND 06Z AND SHWRS/TSTMS SHUD GRDLY DMSH AFT 00Z
AND END W OF TROF.

MORE SUN, LESS CLDS ON SAT AS SML SFC RDG BLDS ACRS NEW ENGLAND. THE
WEAK UPR TROF SHOWN ON AVN FOR SUN JUST S OF SNE SHUD NOT HAVE MUCH
EFFECT ON THE WX.  MODEL HAS PCPN S OF THE S CST.  OF MORE INTEREST
IS THE CDFNT APCHG FM W ON SUN.  THERE IS RELATIVELY STG UPR WLY
FLO BEHIND THIS FNT AND FOR THAT REASON IT FNT SHUD MOV RPDLY EWD
CROSSING THRU THE FA BTWN 00Z AND 06Z MON.  POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR
STG TSTMS AGAIN ACRS THE FA SUN AFTN WITH SHWRS EXTD INTO FIRST PART
OF SUN NGT.

MORE OF A SGNFT CHG IN AMS MON INTO TUE AS THE SFC HI OVR THE GT
LKS MOVS EWD TO NEW ENGLAND.  EXPC DEW PTS TO FALL BACK INTO THE 50S
BY TUE WITH THE SFC HI FCST TO PASS N OF SNE GIVING N TO NE SFC WND
FOR MON NGT INTO WED.

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

DMH

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 16, 5:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:53 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:06 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:07 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:26 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 7:39 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX2 hr
Aug 16, 7:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX22 hr
Aug 16, 7:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX22 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.