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High Surf Advisory 10, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

September 14, 2008Bristol County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high surf advisory at Sep 14, 2008, 3:55 PM EDT for Bristol County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It took effect at Sep 15, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 2008, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 15, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 15, 2008, 5:51 PM EDT
In force
10 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 19:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 259 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
366 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
Sep 14, 4:27 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBOX44 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.