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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

December 29, 20255 counties in Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this high wind watch at Dec 29, 2025, 12:38 AM EST for 5 counties in Massachusetts. It took effect at Dec 29, 2025, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 29, 2025, 12:38 AM EST (05:38 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 29, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Dec 29, 2025, 12:39 PM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Worcester County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 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 Dec 28, 7:37 PM EST, 5 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 7:37 PM EST, 5 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 29, 12:39 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningBOXFranklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester24 hr
Dec 29, 12:39 PM ESTWind AdvisoryBOXBarnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more31 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Massachusetts, 2025Every high wind watch in 2025

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.