Alert archive / Massachusetts / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this frost advisory at May 10, 2016, 3:32 PM EDT for Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at May 11, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2016, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 11, 2016, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 11, 2016, 6:57 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
951 WWUS71 KBOX 101932 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 332 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016 MAZ002-003-008-010-110345- /O.NEW.KBOX.FR.Y.0007.160511T0400Z-160511T1200Z/ WESTERN FRANKLIN MA-EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHARLEMONT...GREENFIELD...ORANGE... CHESTERFIELD...AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON 332 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. * LOCATION...FRANKLIN AND HAMSHIRE COUNTIES IN MASSACHUSETTS. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ RLG FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
2 follow-up statements
997 WWUS71 KBOX 110336 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1136 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016 MAZ002-003-008-010-111145- /O.CON.KBOX.FR.Y.0007.160511T0400Z-160511T1200Z/ WESTERN FRANKLIN MA-EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHARLEMONT...GREENFIELD...ORANGE... CHESTERFIELD...AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON 1136 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... * LOCATION...FRANKLIN AND HAMSHIRE COUNTIES IN MASSACHUSETTS. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
550 WWUS71 KBOX 111057 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 657 AM EDT WED MAY 11 2016 MAZ002-003-008-010-111200- /O.CAN.KBOX.FR.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-160511T1200Z/ WESTERN FRANKLIN MA-EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHARLEMONT...GREENFIELD...ORANGE... CHESTERFIELD...AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON 657 AM EDT WED MAY 11 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES WILL QUICKLY RISE INTO THE 40S THIS MORNING...ENDING THE THREAT OF FROST. $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
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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.