Alert archive / Massachusetts / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Dec 28, 2011, 12:21 AM EST for Barnstable County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 54 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
- Dec 28, 2011, 12:21 AM EST (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2011, 1:15 AM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 38 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
534
WWUS81 KBOX 280521
SPSBOX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1221 AM EST WED DEC 28 2011
MAZ022>024-280615-
BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA-
1221 AM EST WED DEC 28 2011
AT 1220 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG GUSTY RAIN SQUALLS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS
TO 55 MPH ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES WEST OF FALMOUTH TO 36
MILES SOUTHWEST OF VINEYARD HAVEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...FALMOUTH...WEST TISBURY...
TISBURY...VINEYARD HAVEN...MASHPEE...OAK BLUFFS...EDGARTOWN...
BARNSTABLE...HYANNIS...YARMOUTH...DENNIS...TRURO...NANTUCKET...
WELLFLEET...ORLEANS...HARWICH...EASTHAM...CHATHAM AND BREWSTER.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...GET INSIDE WHEN THESE STORMS APPROACH. WINDS MAY BE
STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING DOWN SMALL BRANCHES. MINOR STREET FLOODING AND
PONDING OF WATER IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE MINOR STREET FLOODING AND PONDING OF
WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADS.
&&
LAT...LON 4173 6991 4203 7003 4180 7002 4176 7043
4161 7064 4124 7082 4133 7073 4135 7044
4147 7066 4153 7063 4155 7047 4132 7029
4159 7044 4166 7000 4165 6998 4133 7004
4132 7029 4124 7013 4128 7003
$$
NOCERAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 7:33 PM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Plymouth | 4 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:25 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 65 min | |
| Dec 28, 1:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Barnstable | 32 min |
| Dec 28, 1:24 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 66 min | |
| Dec 27, 11:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 60 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.