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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high wind watch at Apr 2, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT for 8 counties in Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It took effect at Apr 3, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2024, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 3, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2024, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1022 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 2, 10:26 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 10:26 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 3:13 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Apr 2, 12:22 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 21 days |
| Apr 2, 12:22 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk | 24 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:08 PM EDT | Storm Watch | BOX | 14 hr | |
| Apr 2, 2:08 PM EDT | Storm Warning | BOX | 46 hr | |
| Apr 2, 2:14 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk and 2 more | 25 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:22 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Washington | 21 days |
| Apr 2, 12:22 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Kent, Providence | 21 days |
| Apr 2, 12:30 PM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Washington | 21 days |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Massachusetts, 2024High Wind Watches in Rhode Island, 2024Every high wind watch 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.