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Freezing Rain Advisory 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

November 26, 2013Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this freezing rain advisory at Nov 26, 2013, 7:05 PM EST for Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 26, 2013, 7:05 PM EST (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Nov 27, 2013, 2:00 AM EST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 402 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 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 freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Nov 26, 4:48 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 4:48 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 26, 4:48 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 26, 3:02 PM EST, 4 hours 3 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
Nov 27, 4:34 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	12 hr
Nov 27, 10:02 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Dukes	43 min
Nov 27, 10:20 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes	115 min
Nov 27, 10:36 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	BOX		54 min
Nov 27, 10:36 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Barnstable	39 min
Nov 27, 12:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Plymouth	50 min
Nov 27, 4:10 PM EST	Flood Watch	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	110 min
Nov 27, 4:13 PM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		20 hr
Nov 27, 4:13 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		36 hr

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.