Alert archive / Massachusetts / Winter Storm Watches in 2010
Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this winter storm watch at Feb 15, 2010, 4:31 AM EST for 9 counties in Massachusetts; Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Feb 16, 2010, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2010, 4:31 AM EST (09:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2010, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2010, 4:21 AM EST
- In force
- 21 min
- 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, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 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 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 Feb 15, 4:30 AM EST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 4:30 AM EST, 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:17 PM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 13 hr | |
| Feb 15, 3:58 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 6 more | 33 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Massachusetts, 2010Winter Storm Watches in Rhode Island, 2010Winter Storm Watches in Connecticut, 2010Every winter storm 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.