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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this winter storm watch at Feb 14, 2025, 3:12 AM EST for 6 counties in Massachusetts; Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Feb 15, 2025, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2025, 3:12 AM EST (08:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 15, 2025, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2025, 3:22 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 89 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 110 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 14, 12:00 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 12:00 AM EST, 3 hours 12 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 14, 4:05 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 4 more | 66 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:10 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 13 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Massachusetts, 2025Winter Storm Watches in Connecticut, 2025Every winter storm 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.