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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 11, 2015Hampden County, Hampshire County, Worcester County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this fire weather watch at May 11, 2015, 4:27 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It took effect at May 12, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2015, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
In effect from: May 12, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: May 12, 2015, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at May 11, 4:27 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 4:27 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 10:29 AM EDT, 5 hours 58 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
May 11, 3:47 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		64 hr
May 11, 4:20 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 4 more	18 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in Massachusetts, 2015 Every fire weather watch in 2015

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.