Alert archive / Massachusetts / Coastal Flood Warnings in 2013
Coastal Flood Warning 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this coastal flood warning at Mar 6, 2013, 3:52 AM EST for 7 counties in Massachusetts. It took effect at Mar 7, 2013, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for 40 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2013, 3:52 AM EST (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 7, 2013, 5:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2013, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1399 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood warning 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 coastal flood warning went out at Mar 6, 12:24 AM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 12:24 AM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 5:34 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Dukes, Nantucket | 11 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:20 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more | 51 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:20 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 4 more | 52 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:25 PM EST | High Wind Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 46 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:25 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 46 hr |
| Mar 6, 3:52 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | BOX | Washington | 50 hr |
Nearby
Coastal Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2013Every coastal flood warning in 2013
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.