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High Wind Watch 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

September 15, 20106 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high wind watch at Sep 15, 2010, 4:31 PM EDT for 6 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Sep 16, 2010, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 15, 2010, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 16, 2010, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired
Sep 16, 2010, 3:04 PM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Sep 15, 4:21 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 4:21 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 3:46 AM EDTGale WatchBOX25 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Massachusetts, 2010High Wind Watches in Rhode Island, 2010High Wind Watches in Connecticut, 2010Every high wind watch 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.