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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 28, 2006Bristol County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high surf advisory at Jun 28, 2006, 5:16 AM EDT for Bristol County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It took effect at Jun 28, 2006, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 32 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2006, 5:16 AM EDT (09:16 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 28, 2006, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 29, 2006, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Jun 28, 5:02 AM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 5:02 AM EDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 4:35 AM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	BOX		33 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Massachusetts, 2006 High Surf Advisories in Rhode Island, 2006 Every high surf advisory in 2006

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.