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Special Weather Statement, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2023, 3:25 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 8, 2023, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2023, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
County Essex County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
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NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 410 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 MAZ004>006-012>019-026-RIZ001>005-090815- Northern Worcester MA-Central Middlesex MA-Western Essex MA- Southern Worcester MA-Western Norfolk MA-Southeast Middlesex MA- Suffolk MA-Eastern Norfolk MA-Northern Bristol MA- Western Plymouth MA-Eastern Plymouth MA-Northern Middlesex MA- Northwest Providence RI-Southeast Providence RI-Western Kent RI- Eastern Kent RI-Bristol RI- 410 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Massachusetts, eastern Massachusetts, northeastern Massachusetts, southeastern Massachusetts and northern Rhode Island. .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. Flood Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. CTZ002>004-MAZ002-003-008>011-090815- Hartford CT-Tolland CT-Windham CT-Western Franklin MA- Eastern Franklin MA-Western Hampshire MA-Western Hampden MA- Eastern Hampshire MA-Eastern Hampden MA- 410 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Connecticut and western Massachusetts. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. MAZ007-020-021-RIZ007-090815- Eastern Essex MA-Southern Bristol MA-Southern Plymouth MA-Newport RI- 410 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeastern Massachusetts, southeastern Massachusetts and southern Rhode Island. .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. Flood Watch. High Rip Current Risk. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. MAZ022>024-RIZ006-008-090815- Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Washington RI-Block Island RI- 410 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeastern Massachusetts and southern Rhode Island. .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. High Rip Current Risk. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ230>237-250-251-254>256-090815- Boston Harbor-Cape Cod Bay-Nantucket Sound-Vineyard Sound- Buzzards Bay-Rhode Island Sound-Narragansett Bay-Block Island Sound- 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- 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- 410 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts and Rhode Island coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .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/NWSBoston You can follow us on Twitter at @NWSBoston
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 8, 3:10 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk and 1 more | 15 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 6:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 7:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 8:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 8:25 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 65 min | |
| Aug 8, 8:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 9:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 9:19 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 56 min | |
| Aug 8, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 62 min | |
| Aug 8, 9:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 10:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 10:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 10:12 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 63 min | |
| Aug 8, 10:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 10:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 62 min | |
| Aug 8, 10:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Plymouth | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 11:11 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 64 min | |
| Aug 8, 11:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 11:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 62 min | |
| Aug 8, 11:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Plymouth | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 11:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Plymouth | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 11:52 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 53 min | |
| Aug 8, 11:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 12:06 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Essex | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 66 min | |
| Aug 8, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 53 min | |
| Aug 8, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 67 min | |
| Aug 8, 9:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Newport, Washington | 55 min |
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