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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 10, 20109 counties in Massachusetts; Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this freeze warning at May 10, 2010, 3:49 AM EDT for 9 counties in Massachusetts; Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at May 11, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
May 10, 2010, 3:49 AM EDT (07:49 UTC)
In effect from
May 11, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 11, 2010, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Bristol County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 9, 5:15 PM EDT, 10 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 5:15 PM EDT, 10 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 3:49 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryBOXBarnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk and 1 more28 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Massachusetts, 2010Freeze Warnings in Rhode Island, 2010Freeze Warnings in Connecticut, 2010Every freeze warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.