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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 9, 2013Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2013, 8:15 AM EDT for Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 45 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 9, 2013, 8:15 AM EDT (12:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2013, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

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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 Aug 9, 6:56 AM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 6:56 AM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 4:24 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 8:15 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
815 AM EDT FRI AUG 9 2013

CTZ004-RIZ001>003-006-091300-
WINDHAM CT-WASHINGTON RI-WESTERN KENT RI-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-
SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-
815 AM EDT FRI AUG 9 2013

AT 810 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS FROM NEAR WINDHAM CONNECTICUT TO LEDYARD TO
NEAR LEDYARD CONNECTICUT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL BE AFFECTING PORTIONS OF WESTERN RHODE ISLAND BETWEEN
820 AM AND 9 AM. BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE
SHOWERS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. SLOW DOWN
AND EXERCISE CAUTION IF DRIVING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH
FLOODED ROADS.

&&

LAT...LON 4131 7189 4133 7190 4132 7185 4134 7183
      4141 7184 4142 7180 4164 7179 4163 7195
      4166 7216 4170 7221 4201 7171 4201 7162
      4185 7151 4154 7158 4132 7182 4131 7188
TIME...MOT...LOC 1204Z 220DEG 35KT 4165 7214 4147 7197 4118 7204

FIELD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 4:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	15 hr
Aug 9, 7:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester	119 min
Aug 9, 8:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden	3 hr
Aug 9, 9:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol	47 min
Aug 9, 10:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Bristol	46 min
Aug 9, 11:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	3 hr
Aug 9, 11:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Norfolk, Plymouth	40 min
Aug 9, 11:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester	3 hr
Aug 9, 12:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	3 hr
Aug 9, 12:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampden	50 min
Aug 9, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Worcester	40 min
Aug 9, 2:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	3 hr
Aug 9, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	3 hr
Aug 9, 3:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	3 hr
Aug 9, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Barnstable	46 min
Aug 9, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden	3 hr
Aug 9, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX		36 min
Aug 9, 10:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Cheshire, Hillsborough	119 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Rhode Island, 2013 Special Weather Statements in Connecticut, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.