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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 26, 2011Washington County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2011, 6:43 PM EDT for Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 62 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: Jul 26, 2011, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2011, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

County Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 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 Jul 26, 5:47 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 5:47 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 5:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 4:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
410 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2011

MAZ003-004-010-262115-
EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-
410 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2011

AT 410 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL 2 MILES SOUTH OF
DEERFIELD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF GREENFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...MONTAGUE...LEVERETT...WENDELL...
  SHUTESBURY...PELHAM...NEW SALEM...PETERSHAM...PHILLIPSTON...
  HARDWICK...TEMPLETON AND BARRE.

FOR YOUR SAFETY...GET INSIDE WHEN THIS STORM APPROACHES. WINDS MAY BE
STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING DOWN SMALL BRANCHES. MINOR STREET FLOODING AND
PONDING OF WATER IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE MINOR STREET FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER IN
LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS AND
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND.

&&

LAT...LON 4257 7196 4225 7219 4248 7265 4258 7259

NOCERA

Local storm report, Jul 26, 4:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
418 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0355 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NE HUNTINGTON         42.25N  72.86W
07/26/2011                   HAMPSHIRE          MA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES DOWN AT LITTLEVILLE DAM

0355 PM     TSTM WND DMG     WORTHINGTON             42.42N  72.93W
07/26/2011                   HAMPSHIRE          MA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES AND WIRES DOWN ON RIVER ROAD

&&

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Local storm report, Jul 26, 4:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
451 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0355 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NE HUNTINGTON         42.25N  72.86W
07/26/2011                   HAMPSHIRE          MA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES DOWN AT LITTLEVILLE DAM

0355 PM     TSTM WND DMG     WORTHINGTON             42.42N  72.93W
07/26/2011                   HAMPSHIRE          MA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES AND WIRES DOWN ON RIVER ROAD

0417 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     EASTHAMPTON             42.27N  72.68W
07/26/2011                   HAMPSHIRE          MA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            FUNNEL CLOUD

0426 PM     HAIL             WEST SPRINGFIELD        42.12N  72.65W
07/26/2011  E0.75 INCH       HAMPDEN            MA   TRAINED SPOTTER

0427 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST CHICOPEE                42.15N  72.61W
07/26/2011  M70 MPH          HAMPDEN            MA   NONE

0427 PM     HIGH SUST WINDS  CHICOPEE                42.15N  72.61W
07/26/2011  M80 MPH          HAMPDEN            MA   NONE

0430 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     WEST SPRINGFIELD        42.12N  72.65W
07/26/2011                   HAMPDEN            MA   TRAINED SPOTTER

0436 PM     HAIL             SPRINGFIELD             42.12N  72.54W
07/26/2011  E1.00 INCH       HAMPDEN            MA   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

0442 PM     HAIL             LUDLOW                  42.17N  72.48W
07/26/2011  M1.75 INCH       HAMPDEN            MA   AMATEUR RADIO

0445 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SPRINGFIELD             42.12N  72.54W
07/26/2011                   HAMPDEN            MA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES DOWN ON A BUILDING WITH PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE IN
            INDIAN ORCHARD AREA. ALSO TREES UPROOTED IN THE
            VICINITY.

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Local storm report, Jul 26, 6:09 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:43 PM 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
Jul 26, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	62 min
Jul 26, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	66 min
Jul 26, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Franklin	65 min
Jul 26, 4:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	99 min
Jul 26, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	60 min
Jul 26, 4:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	47 min
Jul 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Hampden, Worcester	39 min
Jul 26, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Hampden	53 min
Jul 26, 4:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden, Worcester	98 min
Jul 26, 5:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Worcester	106 min
Jul 26, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Norfolk, Worcester	45 min
Jul 26, 6:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester	53 min
Jul 26, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Washington	27 min
Jul 26, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	39 min

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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.