Alert archive / Massachusetts / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 4:17 PM EDT for Bristol County, Massachusetts; Bristol County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 28 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
- Aug 6, 2016, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Bristol County, MA, Bristol County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
867
WWUS81 KBOX 062017
SPSBOX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
417 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
MAZ020-RIZ005-062045-
SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-BRISTOL RI-
417 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
...HEAVY RAIN SHOWER OVER EASTERN RHODE ISLAND MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST
MASSACHUSETTS...
AT 415 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A HEAVY RAIN SHOWER OVER
WARREN AND BRISTOL IN EASTERN RHODE ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
THERE COULD ALSO BE A FEW CLAPS OF THUNDER, PEA SIZE HAIL, AND
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH WITH THESE SHOWERS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FALL RIVER...DARTMOUTH...BRISTOL...SOMERSET...BARRINGTON...SWANSEA...
TIVERTON...WESTPORT...WARREN AND FREETOWN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS OR UNDERPASSES. AVOID LOW LYING
AREAS NEAR SMALL STREAMS.
&&
LAT...LON 4165 7114 4167 7119 4171 7116 4171 7119
4173 7120 4171 7121 4173 7122 4170 7124
4172 7127 4167 7124 4166 7127 4168 7128
4166 7130 4171 7129 4172 7131 4177 7102
4165 7104
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 264DEG 20KT 4170 7125
$$
FIELDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex | 22 min |
| Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Hampden, Worcester | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk, Worcester | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 49 min | |
| Aug 6, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 42 min | |
| Aug 6, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 47 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Massachusetts, 2016Special Weather Statements in Rhode Island, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.