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High Surf Advisory 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high surf advisory at Jun 23, 2024, 7:08 AM EDT for 5 counties in Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It took effect at Jun 23, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2024, 7:08 AM EDT (11:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 23, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:12 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Jun 23, 6:46 AM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 6:46 AM EDT, 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 5:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 25 min |
| Jun 23, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 52 min |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in Massachusetts, 2024High Surf Advisories in Rhode Island, 2024Every high surf advisory in 2024
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.