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Winter Storm Watch 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

March 17, 20138 counties in Massachusetts; Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this winter storm watch at Mar 17, 2013, 4:11 PM EDT for 8 counties in Massachusetts; Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Mar 18, 2013, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 17, 2013, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 18, 2013, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired
Mar 18, 2013, 4:53 AM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 17, 1:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 1:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 5:00 PM EDTGale WatchBOX12 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in Massachusetts, 2013Winter Storm Watches in Connecticut, 2013Winter Storm Watches in Rhode Island, 2013Every winter storm watch 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.