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Coastal Flood Statement 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 3, 20164 counties in Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this coastal flood statement at Jun 3, 2016, 8:03 PM EDT for 4 counties in Massachusetts. It took effect at Jun 3, 2016, 10:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2016, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 3, 2016, 10:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 4, 2016, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Essex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

763 
WHUS41 KBOX 040003
CFWBOX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
803 PM EDT FRI JUN 3 2016

MAZ007-015-016-019-040500-
/O.NEW.KBOX.CF.S.0007.160604T0200Z-160604T0500Z/
EASTERN ESSEX MA-SUFFOLK MA-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-
803 PM EDT FRI JUN 3 2016

...MINOR SPLASHOVER POSSIBLE DURING TONIGHT/S HIGH TIDE...

* LOCATION...EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS COASTLINE FROM GLOUCESTER TO
  PLYMOUTH COUNTY.

* COASTAL FLOODING...MINOR SPLASHOVER AROUND HIGH TIDE.

* TIMING...BETWEEN 10 PM AND MIDNIGHT.

* IMPACTS...SOME OF THE MOST VULNERABLE SHORE ROADS...INCLUDING
  MORRISSEY BOULEVARD MAY EXPERIENCE MINOR SPLASHOVER.

&&

ALL TIDE HEIGHTS ARE RELATIVE TO MEAN LOWER LOW WATER.
TIME OF HIGH TOTAL TIDES ARE APPROXIMATE TO THE NEAREST HOUR.

NEWBURYPORT

     TOTAL
      TIDE      DAY/TIME     SURGE     WAVES      FLOOD
      /FT/                    /FT/      /FT/    CATEGORY
  -----------  ----------  ---------  -------  ----------
    10.4-10.9    03/11 PM    0.2/ 0.8     2        NONE
    8.6- 9.1    04/12 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     2        NONE
   10.0-10.5    05/12 AM   -0.2/ 0.2     2        NONE
    8.6- 9.1    05/12 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     2        NONE
   10.1-10.6    06/01 AM   -0.2/ 0.2     4        NONE
    8.6- 9.1    06/01 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     3        NONE

GLOUCESTER HARBOR

     TOTAL
      TIDE      DAY/TIME     SURGE     WAVES      FLOOD
      /FT/                    /FT/      /FT/    CATEGORY
  -----------  ----------  ---------  -------  ----------
    11.4-11.9    03/11 PM    0.2/ 0.8     3        NONE
    9.6-10.1    04/11 AM   -0.2/ 0.2     2        NONE
   11.2-11.7    04/11 PM   -0.2/ 0.3    2-3       NONE
    9.6-10.1    05/12 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     2        NONE
   11.1-11.6    06/12 AM   -0.2/ 0.2    5-6       NONE
    9.6-10.1    06/01 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     4        NONE

REVERE

     TOTAL
      TIDE      DAY/TIME     SURGE     WAVES      FLOOD
      /FT/                    /FT/      /FT/    CATEGORY
  -----------  ----------  ---------  -------  ----------
    11.9-12.4    03/11 PM    0.2/ 0.8     2        NONE
   10.3-10.8    04/11 AM   -0.2/ 0.3     2        NONE
   11.7-12.2    04/11 PM   -0.2/ 0.3     2        NONE
   10.2-10.7    05/12 PM   -0.2/ 0.2    1-2       NONE
   11.8-12.3    06/12 AM    0.0/ 0.5    3-4       NONE
   10.2-10.7    06/01 PM   -0.2/ 0.2    2-3       NONE

BOSTON HARBOR

     TOTAL
      TIDE      DAY/TIME     SURGE     WAVES      FLOOD
      /FT/                    /FT/      /FT/    CATEGORY
  -----------  ----------  ---------  -------  ----------
    12.3-12.8    03/11 PM    0.2/ 0.8     1       MINOR
   10.5-11.0    04/11 AM   -0.2/ 0.2     1        NONE
   12.0-12.5    04/11 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     1        NONE
   10.6-11.1    05/12 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     1        NONE
   12.0-12.5    06/12 AM   -0.2/ 0.2    1-2       NONE
   10.5-11.0    06/01 PM   -0.2/ 0.2     1        NONE

SCITUATE

     TOTAL
      TIDE      DAY/TIME     SURGE     WAVES      FLOOD
      /FT/                    /FT/      /FT/    CATEGORY
  -----------  ----------  ---------  -------  ----------
    11.4-11.9    03/11 PM    0.2/ 0.8     2        NONE
    9.8-10.3    04/11 AM   -0.2/ 0.3     2        NONE
   11.3-11.8    05/12 AM   -0.2/ 0.3     2        NONE
   10.0-10.5    05/12 PM    0.0/ 0.5     2        NONE
   11.8-12.3    06/12 AM    0.4/ 0.9     4       MINOR
   10.2-10.7    06/01 PM    0.2/ 0.7    2-3       NONE

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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
Jun 4, 4:52 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		59 hr
Jun 4, 7:06 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth	15 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.