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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2017, 1:20 PM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 25 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
- Jul 13, 2017, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2017, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
County Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 13, 12:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 12:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 7:08 AM EDT, 6 hours 12 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Taunton MA 708 AM EDT Thu Jul 13 2017 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-RIZ001>008-141115- Hartford CT-Tolland CT-Windham CT-Western Franklin MA- Eastern Franklin MA-Northern Worcester MA-Central Middlesex MA- Western Essex MA-Eastern Essex MA-Western Hampshire MA- Western Hampden MA-Eastern Hampshire MA-Eastern Hampden MA- Southern Worcester MA-Western Norfolk MA-Southeast Middlesex MA- Suffolk MA-Eastern Norfolk MA-Northern Bristol MA- Western Plymouth MA-Eastern Plymouth MA-Southern Bristol MA- Southern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Nantucket MA- Northern Middlesex MA-Northwest Providence RI- Southeast Providence RI-Western Kent RI-Eastern Kent RI-Bristol RI- Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 708 AM EDT Thu Jul 13 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Connecticut, all of Massachusetts except Berkshire County, and Rhode Island. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. There is the possibility for heavy rainfall in any thunderstorms through this evening. Some localized urban and poor drainage flooding may result. Some thunderstorms may produce local strong wind gusts mainly this afternoon and evening. There is a low risk of localized wind damage. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Heavy rainfall is possible in any thunderstorms Friday afternoon and evening, which may produce localized urban and poor drainage flooding. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ230>237-250-251-254>256-141115- Boston Harbor-Cape Cod Bay-Nantucket Sound-Vineyard Sound- Buzzards Bay-Rhode Island Sound-Narragansett Bay-Block Island Sound- Coastal waters east of Ipswich Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary-Massachusetts Bay and Ipswich Bay- Coastal waters from Provincetown MA to Chatham MA to Nantucket MA out 20 nm- Coastal Waters extending out to 25 nm South of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket- Coastal Waters from Montauk NY to Marthas Vineyard extending out to 20 nm South of Block Island- 708 AM EDT Thu Jul 13 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts and Rhode Island coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. A few strong thunderstorms may produce brief squally winds across the near shore waters this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. For the latest updates...please visit our webpage at www.weather.gov/boston You can follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NWSBoston You can follow us on Twitter at @NWSBoston
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 1:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Taunton MA
120 PM EDT THU JUL 13 2017
CTZ004-RIZ001-002-131745-
Windham CT-Northwest Providence RI-Southeast Providence RI-
120 PM EDT THU JUL 13 2017
...Strong Thunderstorm Developing in Northeast
Connecticut...
At 119 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a developing strong
thunderstorm over Killingly, or 8 miles north of Plainfield, moving
east at 35 mph.
Pea size hail and winds in excess of 30 mph will accompany this
storm as it approaches Rhode Island through 145 PM.
Locations impacted include...
Cranston, Johnston, Plainfield, Killingly, Scituate, Glocester,
Brooklyn, Foster, Pomfret and Sterling.
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.
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LAT...LON 4177 7193 4186 7193 4186 7152 4173 7153
4173 7158
TIME...MOT...LOC 1719Z 276DEG 32KT 4181 7185
JWDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 8:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Hampden, Hampshire, Plymouth | 8 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 56 min | |
| Jul 13, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Plymouth | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Kent | 24 min |
| Jul 13, 2:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 47 min | |
| Jul 13, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 47 min | |
| Jul 13, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 41 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.