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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

October 13, 1990Essex County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT for Essex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 1990, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Essex County, MA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 1990-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2153 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 1990-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2153 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 10:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXMiddlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester3 hr
Oct 14, 12:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXEssex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk3 hr
Oct 14, 12:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXWorcester3 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.