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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2016, 4:21 PM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island. 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, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1082 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WWUS81 KBOX 162021
SPSBOX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
421 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
CTZ004-MAZ012-RIZ001-162100-
WINDHAM CT-SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-
421 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEASTERN WINDHAM...SOUTHWESTERN
NORFOLK...SOUTHEASTERN WORCESTER AND NORTHWESTERN PROVIDENCE
COUNTIES...
AT 421 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER THOMPSON...OR 16 MILES WEST OF WOONSOCKET...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
10 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHREWSBURY...GRAFTON...KILLINGLY...WEBSTER...BELLINGHAM...
BURRILLVILLE...NORTHBRIDGE...OXFORD...UXBRIDGE...MILLBURY...
NORTH SMITHFIELD...DUDLEY...GLOCESTER...PUTNAM...THOMPSON...
BLACKSTONE...SUTTON...DOUGLAS...UPTON AND HOPEDALE.
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.
THESE STORMS MAY INTENSITY AND BECOME CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGE.
STAY TUNED FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
&&
LAT...LON 4207 7149 4204 7150 4189 7181 4203 7198
4226 7169
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 231DEG 11KT 4201 7183
$$
RLGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 39 min |
| 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, 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.