High Wind, Barnstable
- When
- March 3, 2:00 PM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Barnstable forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.684, -70.274 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Massachusetts, March 3, 1996
Two cold fronts swept across the state from west to east during the day, bringing snow squalls accompanied by thunder-snows. Visibility was reported near zero in West Boylston around 6 AM in a thunderstorm with a heavy snow squall.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.
Two cold fronts swept across the state from west to east during the day, bringing snow squalls accompanied by thunder-snows. Visibility was reported near zero in West Boylston around 6 AM in a thunderstorm with a heavy snow squall. Thunder and a heavy snow squall was reported from Westborough and Shrewsbury at 6:15 AM. Thunder-snow was reported at Fall River around 6:45 AM. During the afternoon, heavy snow squalls and gusty winds accompanied the passage of an Arctic cold front and thunder-snow was reported in Maynard at about 1:20 PM. Wind gusts reached 30 to 50 mph, except stronger over Cape Cod. Near white-out conditions were observed at some locations. Snowfall amounts ranged from 0.1 to 1.0 inches in the eastern part of the state. Totals between 1 and 4 inches occurred in the central and western part of the state with the heaviest amounts along the MA/VT border. On Cape Cod, Falmouth had sustained winds over 30 mph gusting to near 60 mph.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 3 to 4, 1996
- High Wind in Hawaii, March 3 to 4, 1996
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, March 3, 1996
- High Wind in Hawaii, March 3 to 4, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 3, 1996
- High Wind in Maryland, March 3, 1996
- Winter Weather in Massachusetts, March 3, 1996
- High Wind in Florida, March 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, March 3, 1996
- Winter Weather in Rhode Island, March 3, 1996
- Winter Weather in Connecticut, March 3, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 3 to 5, 1996
More
Every storm in Massachusetts in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Massachusetts, March 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5545919.