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, 4:46 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2016, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 5:39 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Auburn, MA | WIRES DOWN BLOCKING THE ON RAMP TO ROUTE 90 AT BRYN MAWR AVE |
| Aug 6, 5:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Charlton, MA | 6 TO 8 INCH TREE BRANCH DOWN ON GUARD HILL ON DRESSER HILL ROAD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted.
335 WWUS81 KBOX 062046 SPSBOX SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 446 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 MAZ004-010>012-062130- NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA- EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- 446 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 ...AREA OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH HAMPDEN COUNTY... AT 442 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...STRETCHING FROM WEST SPRINGFIELD TO PALMER... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCALLY TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WORCESTER...SPRINGFIELD...SHREWSBURY...LUDLOW...WESTBOROUGH... GRAFTON...WEBSTER...SOUTHBRIDGE...AUBURN...EAST LONGMEADOW... NORTHBRIDGE...BELCHERTOWN...WILBRAHAM...OXFORD...UXBRIDGE... MILLBURY...CHARLTON...PALMER...SPENCER AND DUDLEY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS OR UNDERPASSES. AVOID LOW LYING AREAS NEAR SMALL STREAMS. && LAT...LON 4224 7250 4228 7163 4202 7162 4207 7251 TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 269DEG 45KT 4216 7237 $$ FIELD
The 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, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol | 28 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
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.