Alert archive / Massachusetts / Coastal Flood Statements in 2012
Coastal Flood Statement 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this coastal flood statement at Nov 13, 2012, 4:14 PM EST for 5 counties in Massachusetts. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 13, 2012, 4:14 PM EST (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2012, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Essex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
972 WHUS41 KBOX 132114 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 414 PM EST TUE NOV 13 2012 ...MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE TIME OF THE WEDNESDAY MIDDAY TIDE ALONG EAST FACING BEACHES... HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES ALONG WITH INCREASING EASTERLY SWELLS MAY CAUSE MINOR SPLASHOVER AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE ALONG THE EAST FACING COASTLINE DURING THE MIDDAY WEDNESDAY TIDE. MAZ007-015-016-019-022-140515- /O.NEW.KBOX.CF.S.0003.121113T2114Z-121114T1000Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA- 414 PM EST TUE NOV 13 2012 ...MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE WEDNESDAY MIDDAY HIGH TIDE... * LOCATION...EAST FACING COASTLINE OF MASSACHUSETTS. * TIMING...BETWEEN 9 AM AND 1 PM WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...MINOR SPLASHOVER ONTO COASTAL ROADWAYS AND MINOR BEACH EROSION IS POSSIBLE. $$
3 follow-up statements
097 WHUS41 KBOX 140347 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1047 PM EST TUE NOV 13 2012 ...MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE TIME OF THE WEDNESDAY MIDDAY TIDE ALONG EAST FACING BEACHES... HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES ALONG WITH INCREASING EASTERLY SWELLS MAY CAUSE MINOR SPLASHOVER AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE ALONG THE EAST FACING COASTLINE DURING THE MIDDAY WEDNESDAY TIDE. MAZ007-015-016-019-022-141000- /O.CON.KBOX.CF.S.0003.000000T0000Z-121114T1000Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA- 1047 PM EST TUE NOV 13 2012 ...MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE WEDNESDAY MIDDAY HIGH TIDE... * LOCATION...EAST FACING COASTLINE OF MASSACHUSETTS. * TIMING...BETWEEN 9 AM AND 1 PM WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...MINOR SPLASHOVER ONTO COASTAL ROADWAYS AND MINOR BEACH EROSION IS POSSIBLE. $$
645 WHUS41 KBOX 140849 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 349 AM EST WED NOV 14 2012 ...MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE TIME OF THE LATE MORNING HIGH TIDE ALONG EAST FACING BEACHES... VERY HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES ALONG WITH EASTERLY SWELLS MAY CAUSE MINOR SPLASHOVER AROUND THE TIME OF THE LATE MORNING HIGH TIDE. MAZ007-015-016-019-022-141000- /O.CON.KBOX.CF.S.0003.000000T0000Z-121114T1000Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA- 349 AM EST WED NOV 14 2012 ... MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE LATE MORNING HIGH TIDE... * LOCATION...EAST FACING COASTLINE OF MASSACHUSETTS. * TIMING...BETWEEN 9 AM AND 1 PM WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...MINOR SPLASHOVER ONTO COASTAL ROADWAYS AND MINOR BEACH EROSION IS POSSIBLE. $$
155 WHUS41 KBOX 140956 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 456 AM EST WED NOV 14 2012 ...MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE TIME OF THE LATE MORNING HIGH TIDE ALONG EAST FACING BEACHES... VERY HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES ALONG WITH EASTERLY SWELLS MAY CAUSE MINOR SPLASHOVER AROUND THE TIME OF THE LATE MORNING HIGH TIDE. MAZ007-015-016-019-022-141800- /O.EXT.KBOX.CF.S.0003.000000T0000Z-121114T1800Z/ EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA- 456 AM EST WED NOV 14 2012 ...MINOR SPLASHOVER IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE LATE MORNING HIGH TIDE... * LOCATION...EAST FACING COASTLINE OF MASSACHUSETTS. * COASTAL FLOODING... * TIMING...BETWEEN 9 AM AND 1 PM WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...MINOR SPLASHOVER ONTO COASTAL ROADWAYS AND MINOR BEACH EROSION IS POSSIBLE. $$
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.