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Coastal Flood Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this coastal flood warning at Feb 13, 2015, 4:07 PM EST for 4 counties in Massachusetts. It took effect at Feb 15, 2015, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2015, 4:07 PM EST (21:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 15, 2015, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2015, 10:46 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Essex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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 nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this coastal flood warning 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 coastal flood warning went out at Feb 13, 4:00 PM EST, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 4:00 PM EST, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 4:13 AM EST | Coastal Flood Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth | 12 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:00 AM EST | Hurricane Force Wind Watch | BOX | 19 hr | |
| Feb 13, 3:18 PM EST | Blizzard Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 4 more | 49 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:18 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 47 hr |
| Feb 13, 4:07 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | BOX | Nantucket, Norfolk, Suffolk | 43 hr |
Nearby
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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.