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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jul 24, 2015, 12:48 PM EDT for Essex 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
- Jul 24, 2015, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2015, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Essex County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jul 24, 10:40 AM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 10:40 AM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 449 AM EDT FRI JUL 24 2015 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-RIZ001>008-250900- 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-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI- SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI-EASTERN KENT RI-BRISTOL RI- WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- 449 AM EDT FRI JUL 24 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...ALL OF MASSACHUSETTS EXCEPT BERKSHIRE COUNTY...AND RHODE ISLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THEY MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM LATE SUNDAY MORNING INTO SUNDAY EVENING. HEAT INDICES COULD APPROACH HEAT ADVISORY CRITERIA AT SOME INTERIOR LOCATIONS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HAIL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND BE PREPARED TO RELAY REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ANZ230>237-250-251-254>256-250900- 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- 449 AM EDT FRI JUL 24 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE CLOSE TO THE COAST THIS AFTERNOON AND 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. FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/NWSBOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 11:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 24, 12:48 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1248 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 2015
MAZ007-241730-
EASTERN ESSEX-
1248 PM EDT FRI JUL 24 2015
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL ESSEX COUNTY
COUNTIES...
AT 1247 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SALEM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PEAS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PEABODY...SALEM...BEVERLY...DANVERS...MARBLEHEAD AND SWAMPSCOTT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
GET INDOORS WHEN THIS STORM APPROACHES. WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO
PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE...SUCH AS DOWNED BRANCHES. MINOR URBAN AND POOR
DRAINAGE FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
&&
LAT...LON 4255 7083 4255 7085 4254 7090 4253 7089
4254 7087 4252 7089 4250 7089 4252 7086
4252 7085 4250 7085 4247 7089 4255 7097
4259 7087
TIME...MOT...LOC 1647Z 331DEG 18KT 4253 7089
MANNINGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Barnstable | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex | 31 min |
| Jul 24, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 38 min |
| Jul 24, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 43 min |
| Jul 24, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 54 min | |
| Jul 24, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 52 min |
| Jul 24, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 38 min |
| Jul 24, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 47 min |
| Jul 24, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Essex | 40 min |
| Jul 24, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 54 min | |
| Jul 24, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 66 min |
| Jul 24, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 62 min | |
| Jul 24, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 61 min | |
| Jul 24, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 43 min |
| Jul 24, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 58 min | |
| Jul 24, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 58 min | |
| Jul 24, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 40 min |
| Jul 24, 5:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 113 min |
| Jul 24, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Kent, Washington | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 55 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.