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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 29, 2011

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2011, 1:32 AM EDT. It was in force for 43 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 29, 2011, 1:32 AM EDT (05:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2011, 2:15 AM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 00:00Z on 2011-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 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 00:00Z on 2011-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 12:34 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBOXFranklin41 min
Jun 29, 12:51 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBOXHampden39 min
Jun 29, 1:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBOXFranklin45 min
Jun 29, 4:34 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX56 min
Jun 29, 5:20 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX55 min
Jun 29, 7:32 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX22 min
Jun 29, 12:36 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBOXHillsborough39 min
Jun 29, 1:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBOXHillsborough47 min

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.