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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 9, 2011Norfolk County, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2011, 8:38 AM EDT for Norfolk County, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2011, 8:38 AM EDT (12:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2011, 9:30 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -316 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1195 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 9, 7:09 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 7:09 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 4:33 AM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 2:48 AM EDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 2:49 AM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:59 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:38 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	48 min
Jun 8, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Franklin	23 min
Jun 8, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	49 min
Jun 8, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	48 min
Jun 8, 10:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth	24 min
Jun 8, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	42 min
Jun 8, 10:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		41 min
Jun 8, 10:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		49 min
Jun 8, 10:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		39 min
Jun 8, 10:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Plymouth	38 min
Jun 8, 11:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		58 min
Jun 9, 12:19 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		41 min
Jun 9, 12:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	38 min
Jun 9, 1:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Worcester	41 min
Jun 9, 1:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	50 min
Jun 9, 2:12 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		48 min
Jun 9, 2:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	23 min
Jun 9, 2:36 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		54 min
Jun 9, 2:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Plymouth	27 min
Jun 9, 2:53 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		52 min
Jun 9, 10:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampshire	39 min
Jun 9, 10:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	22 min
Jun 9, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	90 min
Jun 9, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	54 min
Jun 9, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester	65 min
Jun 9, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		108 min
Jun 9, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	60 min
Jun 9, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex, Franklin, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk and 1 more	67 min
Jun 9, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester	54 min
Jun 9, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		2 hr
Jun 9, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and 2 more	66 min
Jun 9, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		112 min
Jun 9, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol	53 min
Jun 9, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Plymouth	62 min
Jun 9, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		2 hr
Jun 9, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket	56 min
Jun 8, 10:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Washington	36 min
Jun 9, 2:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Kent, Newport	67 min
Jun 9, 6:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Kent, Providence, Washington	51 min
Jun 9, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Washington	36 min
Jun 8, 9:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX		22 min
Jun 9, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	66 min
Jun 9, 4:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	3 hr
Jun 9, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Cheshire	58 min
Jun 9, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Cheshire, Hillsborough	57 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Massachusetts, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.