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Winter Storm Watch 9, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this winter storm watch at Dec 14, 2022, 2:42 PM EST for Franklin County, Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Dec 15, 2022, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2022, 2:42 PM EST (19:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 15, 2022, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2022, 3:26 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 14, 12:44 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 12:44 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 1:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex, Suffolk | 33 min |
| Dec 14, 1:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester | 39 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.