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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Apr 1, 2016, 8:21 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 24 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
- Apr 1, 2016, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2016, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Essex County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
988
WWUS81 KBOX 020021
SPSBOX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
821 PM EDT FRI APR 1 2016
MAZ006-007-020045-
EASTERN ESSEX MA-WESTERN ESSEX MA-
821 PM EDT FRI APR 1 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWESTERN ESSEX COUNTY...
AT 820 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
HAVERHILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAWRENCE...HAVERHILL...METHUEN...ANDOVER...NORTH ANDOVER...NEWBURYPORT...
AMESBURY...IPSWICH...SALISBURY...GEORGETOWN...BOXFORD...NEWBURY...
GROVELAND...MERRIMAC...ROWLEY...WEST NEWBURY AND SOUTH HAMPTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
GET INDOORS WHEN THIS STORM APPROACHES. WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO
PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE...SUCH AS A FEW DOWNED BRANCHES.
&&
LAT...LON 4286 7085 4287 7082 4283 7081 4282 7085
4281 7087 4280 7083 4282 7082 4273 7078
4272 7080 4277 7082 4272 7082 4263 7113
4274 7119 4280 7118 4282 7114 4281 7107
4286 7103 4289 7093
TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 245DEG 54KT 4275 7107
$$
WTBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:55 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Apr 2, 3:55 AM EDT | Storm Warning | BOX | 34 hr | |
| Apr 2, 3:59 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 4 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:59 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 11 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:51 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more | 19 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:58 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 44 min |
| Apr 2, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 53 min |
| Apr 1, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 44 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.