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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2016, 3:21 PM EDT for Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 39 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 16, 2016, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Hampden County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted.
597
WWUS81 KBOX 161921
SPSBOX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
321 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
CTZ003-MAZ011-162000-
TOLLAND CT-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA-
321 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHERN TOLLAND COUNTY AND MAY
AFFECT EASTERN HAMPDEN COUNTY...
AT 318 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
ELLINGTON...OR NEAR ENFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ELLINGTON...STAFFORD...SOMERS...MONSON...HAMPDEN...BRIMFIELD...
HOLLAND...WALES AND UNION.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
GET INDOORS WHEN THIS STORM APPROACHES. WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO
PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE...SUCH AS A FEW DOWNED BRANCHES.
DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS OR UNDERPASSES. AVOID LOW LYING
AREAS NEAR SMALL STREAMS.
&&
LAT...LON 4195 7249 4198 7250 4215 7221 4198 7210
4191 7250 4194 7252
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 239DEG 22KT 4195 7250
$$
THOMPSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Norfolk | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Kent | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 12:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 37 min | |
| Aug 16, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 55 min | |
| Aug 16, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 63 min | |
| Aug 16, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 49 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:16 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.