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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

March 29, 20074 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this fire weather watch at Mar 29, 2007, 4:02 AM EDT for 4 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island. It took effect at Mar 29, 2007, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 29, 2007, 4:02 AM EDT (08:02 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2007, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 29, 2007, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 250 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2007-03-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2007-03-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 4:02 AM EDTRed Flag WarningBOXBristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk14 hr
Mar 29, 6:19 PM EDTFire Weather WatchBOXBarnstable, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 5 more25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.