Alert archive / New Hampshire / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2012, 2:47 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 28 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 8, 2012, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Hillsborough County, NH
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jun 8, 1:58 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:58 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1130 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-081730- HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT-WESTERN FRANKLIN MA- EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- WESTERN HAMPDEN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA- SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA- SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA- WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA- SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- NORTHERN MIDDLESEX MA-CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH- WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI- SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI-EASTERN KENT RI- BRISTOL RI-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTFORD...WINDSOR LOCKS...UNION... VERNON...PUTNAM...WILLIMANTIC...CHARLEMONT...GREENFIELD... ORANGE...BARRE...FITCHBURG...FRAMINGHAM...LOWELL...LAWRENCE... GLOUCESTER...CHESTERFIELD...BLANDFORD...AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON... SPRINGFIELD...MILFORD...WORCESTER...FOXBORO...NORWOOD... CAMBRIDGE...BOSTON...QUINCY...TAUNTON...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH... FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...MATTAPOISETT...CHATHAM...FALMOUTH... PROVINCETOWN...VINEYARD HAVEN...NANTUCKET...AYER...JAFFREY... KEENE...MANCHESTER...NASHUA...PETERBOROUGH...WEARE...FOSTER... SMITHFIELD...PROVIDENCE...WEST GREENWICH...WARWICK...BRISTOL... NARRAGANSETT...WESTERLY...NEWPORT...BLOCK ISLAND 1130 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS NORTHERN MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE. ALTHOUGH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BEGIN TO DEVELOP ANYWHERE IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AFTER 3 OR 4 PM...THE CONCERN FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS GREATEST BETWEEN 5 AND 9 PM ACROSS NORTHWEST MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE...AND BETWEEN 7 AND 11 PM ACROSS NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ELSEWHERE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING MAY PRODUCE LOCAL DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. AFTER 3 PM...PEOPLE ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE READY TO QUICKLY MOVE TO SHELTER IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED OR THE SKY BEGINS TO LOOK THREATENING. THOMPSON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:47 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
247 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012
NHZ015-081915-
WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-
247 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012
AT 245 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZED HAIL 4 MILES
NORTH OF PETERBOROUGH...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF JAFFREY...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...BENNINGTON...SHARON...
GREENFIELD...TEMPLE...GREENVILLE...FRANCESTOWN...MASON...
LYNDEBOROUGH...WILTON AND NEW BOSTON.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...GET INSIDE WHEN THESE STORMS APPROACH. THESE STORMS
MAY STRENGTHEN AND COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OR LARGE HAIL. STAY
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE MINOR STREET FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER IN
LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADS.
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LAT...LON 4306 7164 4273 7171 4278 7189 4289 7199
4300 7198
SIPPRELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Suffolk | 26 min |
| Jun 8, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 30 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 21 min |
| Jun 8, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 35 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Hampshire, 2012Every special weather statement 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.