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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2014, 7:03 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 42 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
- May 30, 2014, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2014, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Middlesex County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 May 30, 7:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 7:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 333 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-311945- HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT-WESTERN FRANKLIN MA- EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- WESTERN HAMPDEN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA- SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA- SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA- WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA- SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- NORTHERN MIDDLESEX MA-CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH- WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI- SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI-EASTERN KENT RI-BRISTOL RI- WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- 333 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS...EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A LOW PROBABILITY OF AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ230>237-250-251-254>256-311945- BOSTON HARBOR-CAPE COD BAY-NANTUCKET SOUND-VINEYARD SOUND- BUZZARDS BAY-RHODE ISLAND SOUND-NARRAGANSETT BAY-BLOCK ISLAND SOUND- COASTAL WATERS EAST OF IPSWICH BAY AND THE STELLWAGEN BANK NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY-MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND IPSWICH BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PROVINCETOWN MA TO CHATHAM MA TO NANTUCKET MA OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS EXTENDING OUT TO 25 NM SOUTH OF MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET- COASTAL WATERS FROM MONTAUK NY TO MARTHAS VINEYARD EXTENDING OUT TO 20 NM SOUTH OF BLOCK ISLAND- 333 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MASSACHUSETTS COASTAL WATERS AND RHODE ISLAND COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 529 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014 MAZ011-302200- EASTERN HAMPDEN- 529 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL HAMPDEN COUNTY COUNTIES... AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SPRINGFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PEAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPRINGFIELD...CHICOPEE...WESTFIELD...HOLYOKE...AGAWAM...WEST SPRINGFIELD...LUDLOW...LONGMEADOW...EAST LONGMEADOW...WILBRAHAM AND HAMPDEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MINOR URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO INSIDE OR IN A VEHICLE. STAY AWAY FROM OPEN AREAS SUCH AS BALL FIELDS...GOLF COURSES AND PARKS. WAIT AT LEAST 30 MINUTES AFTER THE STORM ENDS TO RESUME OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. && LAT...LON 4214 7273 4222 7252 4204 7236 4204 7267 TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 326DEG 29KT 4213 7258 MD
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 602 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014 MAZ004-302245- NORTHERN WORCESTER- 602 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WEST CENTRAL WORCESTER COUNTY COUNTIES... AT 601 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER OAKHAM...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WORCESTER...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PEAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPENCER...LEICESTER...RUTLAND...BARRE...PAXTON...NORTH BROOKFIELD... HUBBARDSTON...WEST BROOKFIELD...BROOKFIELD...HARDWICK...EAST BROOKFIELD...OAKHAM AND NEW BRAINTREE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MINOR URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO INSIDE OR IN A VEHICLE. STAY AWAY FROM OPEN AREAS SUCH AS BALL FIELDS...GOLF COURSES AND PARKS. WAIT AT LEAST 30 MINUTES AFTER THE STORM ENDS TO RESUME OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. && LAT...LON 4243 7220 4249 7198 4225 7188 4219 7212 TIME...MOT...LOC 2201Z 340DEG 13KT 4239 7206 MD
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:12 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
612 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014
MAZ004-302300-
NORTHERN WORCESTER-
612 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHEASTERN WORCESTER COUNTY
COUNTY...
AT 611 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTMINSTER...OR NEAR FITCHBURG...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PEAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEOMINSTER...FITCHBURG...GARDNER...HOLDEN...LANCASTER...STERLING...
WEST BOYLSTON...WESTMINSTER...ASHBURNHAM...HUBBARDSTON AND PRINCETON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. MINOR URBAN AND
POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO INSIDE OR IN A VEHICLE. STAY AWAY FROM OPEN
AREAS SUCH AS BALL FIELDS...GOLF COURSES AND PARKS. WAIT AT LEAST 30
MINUTES AFTER THE STORM ENDS TO RESUME OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.
&&
LAT...LON 4246 7165 4237 7185 4257 7201 4263 7186
4263 7184
TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 332DEG 13KT 4253 7192
MDSpecial weather statement, May 30, 6:29 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 37 min |
| May 30, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin | 23 min |
| May 30, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 31 min |
| May 30, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 43 min |
| May 30, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 48 min |
| May 30, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 52 min |
| May 30, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Norfolk | 65 min |
| May 30, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 46 min |
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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.