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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2020, 4:39 PM EDT for Barnstable County, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 51 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
- Apr 26, 2020, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2020, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Plymouth County, MA
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The Boston radar (KBOX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Apr 26, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 26, 4:22 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 422 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-RIZ001>008-272030- 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- 422 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Connecticut, all of Massachusetts east of Berkshire County, and Rhode Island. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ231-232-235-237-255-256-272030- Cape Cod Bay-Nantucket Sound-Rhode Island Sound-Block Island Sound- 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- 422 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts coastal waters and Rhode Island coastal waters. .DAY ONE...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...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ250-251-254-272030- 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- 422 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT TUESDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts coastal waters. .DAY ONE...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...Monday through Saturday. 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. ANZ233-234-236-272030- Vineyard Sound-Buzzards Bay-Narragansett Bay- 422 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts coastal waters and Rhode Island coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ230-272030- Boston Harbor- 422 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT MONDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts coastal waters. .DAY ONE...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...Monday through Saturday. 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. For more information on upcoming hazardous weather, please see the Area Forecast Discussion on our webpage for the latest forecast thinking. There is also our Enhanced Hazardous Weather Outlook at www.weather.gov/box/ehwo 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, Apr 26, 4:39 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
439 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020
MAZ018>023-RIZ007-262130-
Eastern Plymouth MA-Southern Bristol MA-Southern Plymouth MA-
Western Plymouth MA-Dukes MA-Barnstable MA-Newport RI-
439 PM EDT Sun Apr 26 2020
...Thunderstorms Will Move Across Southeast Massachusetts and the
Cape...
At 435 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of thunderstorms
from near Little Compton Rhode Island to just northeast of Marthas
Vineyard. These storms were moving northeast at 40 mph.
Gusty winds along with briefly heavy rainfall will accompany
these storms. Some minor ponding of poor drainage areas may occur.
Locations impacted include...
New Bedford, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dartmouth, Falmouth, Brewster,
Marion, Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, Tisbury, Provincetown, Yarmouth,
Middleborough, Wareham, Sandwich, Bourne, Fairhaven, Westport,
Duxbury and Dennis.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Get indoors when these storms approach.
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LAT...LON 4154 7000 4167 7001 4160 7046 4141 7045
4155 7050 4141 7056 4153 7067 4144 7084
4145 7084 4175 7063 4174 7071 4160 7096
4142 7086 4146 7120 4206 7072 4176 7047
4180 7002 4207 7024 4208 7022 4200 7002
TIME...MOT...LOC 2035Z 232DEG 36KT 4145 7111 4146 7026
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.