Alert archive / Massachusetts / Special Weather Statements in 2013

Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 23, 2013Essex County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2013, 12:52 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 23, 2013, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

County Essex County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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 text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</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 Jul 23, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 10:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 6:37 AM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 23, 7:20 AM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, Jul 23, 10:23 AM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 12:52 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 10:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	3 hr
Jul 23, 1:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	2 hr
Jul 23, 4:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	15 hr
Jul 23, 5:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	3 hr
Jul 23, 6:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin	2 hr
Jul 23, 6:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Worcester	3 hr
Jul 23, 10:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	113 min
Jul 23, 11:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	113 min
Jul 23, 12:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	2 hr
Jul 23, 12:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk	2 hr
Jul 23, 1:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk	2 hr
Jul 23, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Norfolk, Suffolk	65 min
Jul 23, 1:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	2 hr
Jul 23, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		54 min
Jul 23, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Essex	50 min
Jul 23, 2:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	119 min
Jul 23, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Worcester	64 min
Jul 23, 3:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Worcester	2 hr
Jul 23, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Essex, Middlesex	56 min
Jul 23, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk	52 min
Jul 23, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		90 min
Jul 23, 3:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Middlesex	2 hr
Jul 23, 4:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester	2 hr
Jul 23, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Suffolk	40 min
Jul 23, 4:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk	2 hr
Jul 23, 5:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Bristol, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester	2 hr
Jul 23, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol	50 min
Jul 23, 5:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Providence	90 min
Jul 23, 5:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	3 hr
Jul 23, 7:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	117 min
Jul 23, 3:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Cheshire, Hillsborough	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Massachusetts, 2013 Every special weather statement 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.