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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this freezing rain advisory at Jan 18, 2015, 7:41 AM EST for 7 counties in Massachusetts; Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2015, 7:41 AM EST (12:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2015, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- 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, Worcester County, MA, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Jan 18, 7:05 AM EST, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 7:05 AM EST, 36 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jan 18, 5:39 AM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 539 AM EST SUN JAN 18 2015 CTZ002-003-MAZ004>006-010>012-026-181700- HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- WESTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA- SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HARTFORD...WINDSOR LOCKS...UNION... VERNON...BARRE...FITCHBURG...FRAMINGHAM...LOWELL...LAWRENCE... AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON...SPRINGFIELD...MILFORD...WORCESTER...AYER 539 AM EST SUN JAN 18 2015 ...A BRIEF PERIOD OF LIGHT SNOW AND/OR FREEZING DRIZZLE IS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING... PRECIPITATION WILL OVERSPREAD INTERIOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND THIS MORNING DURING WHICH TIME THE COMBINATION OF EITHER SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES AND/OR GROUND TEMPERATURES MAY BE BELOW FREEZING SUCH AS TO ALLOW PRECIPITATION TO FALL IN THE FORM OF LIGHT SNOW AND/OR FREEZING DRIZZLE. ANY MIXED WINTRY PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BE BRIEF...NO MORE THAN AN HOUR OR TWO AT MOST. ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN A TRACE. NEVERTHELESS...THE POSSIBILITY DOES PRESENT THE THREAT OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS...ESPECIALLY TO TRAVEL. IF TRAVELING THROUGH PORTIONS OF NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...AS WELL AS WESTERN...CENTRAL...INTERIOR-EASTERN AND NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS... BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY THIS MORNING FOR CHANGING ROAD CONDITIONS. PRECIPITATION SHOULD CHANGE OVER TO ALL RAIN FOR INTERIOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND AROUND NOON. SIPPRELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 3:59 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 21 hr | |
| Jan 18, 3:59 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 59 hr | |
| Jan 18, 4:02 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 4 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:03 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 3 hr |
Nearby
Freezing Rain Advisories in Massachusetts, 2015Freezing Rain Advisories in Connecticut, 2015Freezing Rain Advisories in Rhode Island, 2015Every freezing rain advisory 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.