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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Jan 8, 2020, 5:18 PM EST for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 57 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, 5:18 PM EST (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2020, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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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</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 Jan 8, 3:38 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 3:38 PM EST, 1 hour 40 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
Special weather statement, Jan 8, 2:53 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Boston/Norton MA
253 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
MAZ004-005-012-014-026-082100-
Northwest Middlesex County-Southern Worcester-Central Middlesex
County-Northern Worcester-Southeast Middlesex-
253 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
...A snow squall will affect Northwest Middlesex County...Southern
Worcester...Central Middlesex County...Northern
Worcester...and Southeast Middlesex Counties...
At 252 PM EST...A snow squall was over Westminster, or near
Leominster, 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...
Framingham, Waltham, Leominster, Fitchburg, Billerica, Marlborough,
Natick, Lexington, Wellesley, Burlington, Westford, Acton, Gardner,
Hudson, Concord, Sudbury, Holden, Ashland, Northborough and Clinton.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4251 7121 4232 7129 4231 7133 4227 7131
4225 7131 4225 7133 4222 7134 4246 7205
4265 7196
TIME...MOT...LOC 1952Z 290DEG 25KT 4252 7191
LocontoSpecial weather statement, Jan 8, 2:57 PM EST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Boston/Norton MA
257 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
CTZ004-MAZ004-005-012-013-RIZ001-082100-
Windham-Southern Worcester-Western Norfolk-Central Middlesex
County-Northern Worcester-Northwest Providence-
257 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
...A snow squall will affect Windham...Southern Worcester...Western
Norfolk...Central Middlesex County...Northern Worcester...Northwest
Providence...
At 255 PM EST...A snow squall was along a line extending from near
West Boylston to Leicester to near Dudley, and was moving east at 20
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...
Worcester, Framingham, Woonsocket, Marlborough, Shrewsbury,
Cumberland, Natick, North Providence, Franklin, Johnston, Milford,
Wellesley, Smithfield, Lincoln, Hudson, Westborough, Grafton,
Sudbury, Holden and Webster.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4234 7127 4204 7137 4187 7148 4186 7154
4196 7205 4215 7190 4241 7180
TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 279DEG 16KT 4233 7178 4214 7184 4201 7195
LocontoSpecial weather statement, Jan 8, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Boston/Norton MA
300 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
CTZ004-RIZ001>004-006-082100-
Windham-Northwest Providence-Washington-Eastern Kent-Western
Kent-Southeast Providence-
300 PM EST Wed Jan 8 2020
...A snow squall will affect Windham...Northwest Providence...
Washington...Eastern Kent...Western Kent...Southeast Providence...
At 300 PM EST...A snow squall was along a line extending from Putnam
to near Plainfield to near Canterbury, and was moving east at 20 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...
Providence, Warwick, Cranston, Pawtucket, East Providence, Coventry,
North Providence, West Warwick, Johnston, North Kingstown,
Plainfield, Smithfield, Lincoln, Central Falls, Killingly,
Burrillville, East Greenwich, Griswold, Scituate and Glocester.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 4157 7179 4164 7179 4163 7196 4165 7205
4175 7192 4198 7191 4189 7136 4184 7137
4186 7138 4182 7137 4178 7139 4168 7139
4169 7145 4166 7144 4167 7143 4166 7141
4165 7142 4162 7140 4150 7148
TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 289DEG 18KT 4190 7186 4174 7187 4165 7198
LocontoSpecial weather statement, Jan 8, 3:53 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 1:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 58 min |
| 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, 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 |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Massachusetts, 2020Special Weather Statements in Connecticut, 2020Every special weather statement in 2020
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.