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 Aug 5, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 5, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2012, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Hillsborough County, NH
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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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WWUS81 KBOX 060200
SPSBOX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1000 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012
NHZ011-012-015-060230-
CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH-WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH
NH-
1000 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012
AT 955 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND
HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR PETERBOROUGH...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...GREENFIELD...WILTON...
LYNDEBOROUGH...FRANCESTOWN...MONT VERNON...NEW BOSTON...WEARE...
GOFFSTOWN...BEDFORD AND MANCHESTER.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4306 7164 4307 7152 4306 7151 4305 7149
4304 7148 4305 7146 4302 7144 4302 7140
4295 7137 4278 7192 4292 7205 4315 7167
$$
WTBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 8:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 117 min |
| Aug 6, 12:24 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 7 hr | |
| Aug 6, 7:11 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | BOX | 9 hr | |
| Aug 5, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent | 55 min |
| Aug 5, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 62 min | |
| Aug 5, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Cheshire | 63 min |
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.