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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jan 8, 2020, 1:02 PM EST for Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 58 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
- Jan 8, 2020, 1:02 PM EST (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2020, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jan 8, 12:51 PM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 12:51 PM EST, 11 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 425 AM EST Wed Jan 8 2020 MAZ005>007-013>021-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-090930- Central Middlesex MA-Western Essex MA-Eastern Essex 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- Cheshire-Eastern Hillsborough-Western And Central Hillsborough- Northwest Providence RI-Southeast Providence RI-Western Kent RI- Eastern Kent RI-Bristol RI-Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 425 AM EST Wed Jan 8 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for eastern Massachusetts, northeastern Massachusetts, southeastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, southern New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. MAZ022>024-090930- Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Nantucket MA- 425 AM EST Wed Jan 8 2020 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST THURSDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeastern Massachusetts. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. ANZ232>235-237-250-254>256-090930- Nantucket Sound-Vineyard Sound-Buzzards Bay-Rhode Island Sound- Block Island Sound- Coastal waters east of Ipswich Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary- 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- 425 AM EST Wed Jan 8 2020 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 AM EST THURSDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts coastal waters and Rhode Island coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ230-231-236-251-090930- Boston Harbor-Cape Cod Bay-Narragansett Bay- Massachusetts Bay and Ipswich Bay- 425 AM EST Wed Jan 8 2020 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 AM EST THURSDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts coastal waters and Rhode Island coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Gale Warning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. CTZ002>004-MAZ002>004-008>012-026-090930- Hartford CT-Tolland CT-Windham CT-Western Franklin MA- Eastern Franklin MA-Northern Worcester MA-Western Hampshire MA- Western Hampden MA-Eastern Hampshire MA-Eastern Hampden MA- Southern Worcester MA-Northern Middlesex MA- 425 AM EST Wed Jan 8 2020 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST THURSDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Connecticut, central Massachusetts, eastern Massachusetts and western Massachusetts. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. A coating to 2 inches of snow is possible overnight with the higher snowfall amounts expected further south and east. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. 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/us.nationalweatherservice.boston.gov You can follow us on Twitter at @NWSBoston
In the hours before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Boston/Norton MA
102 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
MAZ002-003-008>011-081900-
Western Franklin-Western Hampshire-Western Hampden-Eastern
Hampden-Eastern Franklin-Eastern Hampshire-
102 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
...A cluster of snow squalls will affect Western Franklin...Western
Hampshire... Western Hampden...Eastern Hampden...Eastern
Franklin...Eastern Hampshire Counties...
At 1257 PM EST...A cluster of snow squalls was along a line
extending from 6 miles east of Bennington to near Cheshire to near
Lenox, and was moving east at 30 mph.
Expect a sudden reduction in visibility to as low as one-half mile
at times, brief gusty winds up to 25 mph and a quick coating of snow
accumulation.
Locations impacted include...
Chicopee, Holyoke, Amherst, Northampton, Greenfield, Orange,
Deerfield, Ludlow, South Hadley, Easthampton, Belchertown, Monroe,
Montague, Granby, Southampton, Hadley, Sunderland, Hatfield,
Northfield and Williamsburg.
Drivers need to remain alert for quickly deteriorating and rapidly
changing conditions. Snow squalls can often lead to accidents,
especially on highways, since road conditions can change rapidly.
Slow down and avoid braking suddenly.
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LAT...LON 4239 7301 4263 7295 4266 7295 4267 7300
4270 7295 4270 7302 4274 7302 4272 7228
4267 7227 4243 7230 4217 7244 4225 7300
4231 7300 4231 7303 4233 7306 4238 7307
TIME...MOT...LOC 1757Z 283DEG 25KT 4287 7306 4256 7310 4236 7322
LocontoThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 55 min |
| Jan 8, 2:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex | 67 min |
| Jan 8, 3:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 52 min |
| Jan 8, 3:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Dukes, Norfolk, Plymouth | 61 min |
| Jan 8, 5:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 57 min |
| Jan 8, 2:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 63 min |
| Jan 8, 3:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Kent, Providence | 60 min |
| Jan 8, 2:11 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 64 min |
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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.