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Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

February 1, 202311 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this wind chill watch at Feb 1, 2023, 3:11 AM EST for 11 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Feb 3, 2023, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 1, 2023, 3:11 AM EST (08:11 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 3, 2023, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 2, 2023, 3:38 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 Feb 1, 12:49 AM EST, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 12:49 AM EST, 2 hours 22 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
Feb 1, 3:17 AM EST	Gale Watch	BOX		24 hr
Feb 1, 3:18 PM EST	Heavy Freezing Spray Watch	BOX		12 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Watches in Massachusetts, 2023 Wind Chill Watches in Rhode Island, 2023 Wind Chill Watches in Connecticut, 2023 Every wind chill watch in 2023

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.