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Fire Weather Watch 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

April 8, 201213 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this fire weather watch at Apr 8, 2012, 2:10 PM EDT for 13 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 9, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2012, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 9, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 8, 2012, 4:31 PM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Apr 8, 10:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 10:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 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
Apr 8, 3:27 AM EDT	Gale Watch	BOX		13 hr
Apr 8, 4:31 PM EDT	Red Flag Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more	27 hr
Apr 8, 4:36 PM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		24 hr
Apr 8, 4:36 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		37 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in Massachusetts, 2012 Fire Weather Watches in Rhode Island, 2012 Fire Weather Watches in Connecticut, 2012 Every fire weather watch in 2012

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.