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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high wind watch at Feb 15, 2025, 3:32 AM EST for 13 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Feb 16, 2025, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2025, 3:32 AM EST (08:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2025, 3:16 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, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Nantucket 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), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 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 Feb 15, 12:59 AM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 12:59 AM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:31 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Feb 15, 4:38 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 35 hr | |
| Feb 15, 2:50 PM EST | Storm Watch | BOX | 13 hr | |
| Feb 15, 3:01 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 31 hr |
Nearby
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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.