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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

October 22, 2014Bristol County, Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Oct 22, 2014, 8:41 PM EDT for Bristol County, Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island. It was in force for 49 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: Oct 22, 2014, 8:41 PM EDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired: Oct 22, 2014, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Bristol County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 566 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 22, 7:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 22, 7:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 22, 4:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 22, 4:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 22, 4:56 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 22, 4:58 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 22, 5:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 22, 6:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 22, 8:41 PM EDT, 0 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
Oct 22, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		60 min
Oct 22, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		67 min
Oct 22, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Norfolk, Worcester	50 min
Oct 22, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		64 min
Oct 22, 10:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Norfolk	57 min
Oct 22, 11:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth	3 hr
Oct 23, 2:43 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	3 hr
Oct 23, 4:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk	3 hr
Oct 23, 5:10 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		18 hr
Oct 23, 5:10 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		47 hr
Oct 23, 5:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	3 hr
Oct 23, 5:53 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	112 min
Oct 23, 5:57 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex	2 hr
Oct 23, 7:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Middlesex	3 hr
Oct 23, 7:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex	3 hr
Oct 23, 7:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester	117 min
Oct 23, 7:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	116 min
Oct 23, 7:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk	2 hr
Oct 23, 7:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester	3 hr
Oct 23, 8:15 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		60 min
Oct 23, 8:23 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	3 hr
Oct 23, 8:24 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Worcester	15 hr
Oct 23, 8:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	2 hr
Oct 23, 9:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk	3 hr
Oct 23, 10:13 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	4 hr
Oct 23, 10:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire, Worcester	4 hr
Oct 23, 12:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Essex	3 hr
Oct 23, 2:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	3 hr
Oct 23, 5:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol	2 hr
Oct 22, 10:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Kent, Providence, Washington	113 min
Oct 23, 10:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Cheshire, Hillsborough	4 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Rhode Island, 2014 Special Weather Statements in Massachusetts, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.