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Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

January 13, 2022Franklin County, Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind chill watch at Jan 13, 2022, 3:43 AM EST for Franklin County, Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jan 14, 2022, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2022, 3:43 AM EST (08:43 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 14, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 13, 2022, 3:25 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill watch 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 wind chill watch went out at Jan 13, 3:11 AM EST, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 3:11 AM EST, 32 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 3:07 PM EST	Gale Warning	BOX		36 hr
Jan 13, 3:07 PM EST	Storm Warning	BOX		36 hr
Jan 13, 3:07 PM EST	Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory	BOX		48 hr
Jan 13, 3:25 PM EST	Wind Chill Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire	45 hr
Jan 13, 3:25 PM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more	45 hr
Jan 13, 3:25 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket	12 hr
Jan 13, 3:29 PM EST	High Wind Warning	BOX	Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket	32 hr
Jan 13, 3:29 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	32 hr

Nearby

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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.