Alert archive / Massachusetts / Winter Storm Watches in 2007
Winter Storm Watch 11, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this winter storm watch at Dec 14, 2007, 3:37 PM EST for 6 counties in Massachusetts; Providence County, Rhode Island; Cheshire County, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Dec 16, 2007, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2007, 3:37 PM EST (20:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 16, 2007, 5:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2007, 4:40 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Cheshire County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 105 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 14, 3:06 PM EST, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 3:06 PM EST, 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 14, 4:26 AM EST, 11 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 426 AM EST FRI DEC 14 2007 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-150930- HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT-WESTERN FRANKLIN MA- EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- WESTERN HAMPDEN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA- SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA- SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA- WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA- SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- NORTHERN MIDDLESEX MA-CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH- WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI- SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI-EASTERN KENT RI-BRISTOL RI- WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- 426 AM EST FRI DEC 14 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS...EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A POWERFUL COASTAL STORM WILL AFFECT THE REGION LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND VERY LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. THE SNOW MAY QUICKLY BECOME MODERATE TO HEAVY. THE SNOW IS THEN EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO SLEET SUNDAY MORNING TO THE SOUTH OF THE MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE. BEFORE THE CHANGE OVER...SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE TO THE SOUTH OF THE MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE WITH THE LOW END AMOUNTS EXPECTED NEAR THE SOUTH COAST. AFTER THE PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO SLEET IT SHOULD TURN TO RAIN ACROSS EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND BY AFTERNOON...AS WARMER AIR MOVES IN OFF THE OCEAN. THE RAIN MAY FALL HEAVY AT TIMES AND LEAD TO AREAS OF URBAN STREET FLOODING AS LOTS OF LEFT OVER SNOW MAY BE CLOGGING STORM DRAINS. ACROSS THE LOWER CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY THE SLEET MAY TURN TO A PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. THE PRECIPITATION MAY END AS RAIN IN THIS REGION AS WELL IF TEMPERATURES CAN INCH ABOVE FREEZING...BUT THAT REMAINS UNCERTAIN. TO THE NORTH OF THE MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE...THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO LAST LONGER. IT MAY FALL MODERATE TO HEAVY AT TIMES BEFORE CHANGING TO SLEET BY LATE SUNDAY MORNING. BEFORE THE CHANGE OVER...SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS REGION WITH THE HIGHER AMOUNTS EXPECTED IN FAR NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. THE SLEET WILL LIKELY CHANGE TO PLAIN RAIN ACROSS NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS AS WARMER AIR MOVES IN OFF THE OCEAN. ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND INTERIOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS THE SLEET MAY CHANGE TO A PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THIS STORM IS STILL 48 HOURS AWAY SO THIS SCENARIO IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. IF THE STORM TRACKS FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST THAN EXPECTED...WE WILL NEED TO INCREASE OUR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS. IF IT TRACKS FURTHER NORTHWEST THAN WE ARE THINKING...THERE WILL BE LESS SNOW AND SLEET. IN ADDITION...A WIND ADVISORY WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED FOR THE COAST ON SUNDAY. EASTERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE LIKELY FOR PORTIONS OF THE COAST. AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM LIFTS OFF TO THE NORTH...STRONG WINDS MAY AFFECT A GOOD CHUNK OF THE REGION SUNDAY EVENING AND SUNDAY NIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS MUCH OF OUR AREA WITH POSSIBLY A HIGH WIND WATCH/WARNING FOR THE SOUTH COAST...CAPE AND ISLANDS. AS FOR COASTAL FLOODING...WITH LOW ASTRONOMICAL HIGH TIDE ON SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY OF MODERATE COASTAL FLOODING REMAINS LOW BUT IT STILL CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. A MORE LIKELY SCENARIO IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME MINOR COASTAL FLOODING AND SPLASH OVER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ230>237-250-254-255-150930- BOSTON HARBOR-CAPE COD BAY-NANTUCKET SOUND-VINEYARD SOUND- BUZZARDS BAY-RHODE ISLAND SOUND-NARRAGANSETT BAY-BLOCK ISLAND SOUND- COASTAL WATERS FROM MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT 25 NM TO PLYMOUTH MA OUT 40 NM...INCLUDING THE STELLWAGEN BANK NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PROVINCETOWN MA TO CHATHAM MA TO NANTUCKET MA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM MONTAUK NY TO BLOCK ISLAND RI TO MARTHAS VINEYARD MA TO NANTUCKET MA SOUTHEAST TO 20 NM- 426 AM EST FRI DEC 14 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MASSACHUSETTS COASTAL WATERS AND RHODE ISLAND COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A POWERFUL COASTAL STORM WILL LIKELY BRING STORM FORCE WIND GUSTS AND VERY HIGH SEAS TO THE OPEN WATERS SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. GALE FORCE WIND GUSTS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO PART OF MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FRANK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2:34 PM EST | High Wind Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 26 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Massachusetts, 2007Winter Storm Watches in New Hampshire, 2007Winter Storm Watches in Rhode Island, 2007Every winter storm watch in 2007
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.