Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 23, 1992, 5:02 AM EST for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 23, 1992, 5:02 AM EST (10:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 1992, 8:08 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Capitol Planning Region, CT
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBDL 231013 COR FFWBDL CTC003-009-231500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION TO 1ST PRGH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 502 AM EST MON NOV 23 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EST... IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ...SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT ...NEW HAVEN COUNTY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINS HAVE PLAGUED THE AREA SINCE EARLY MORNING. NEARLY THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN MERIDEN AND THE QUINNIPIAC RIVER BASIN. MERIDEN POLICE REPORT SEVERAL ROADS HAVE FLOODED WITH THE QUINNIPIAC RIVER ALONG MAIN STREET NEAR FLOOD STAGE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY AND ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO` HIGHER GROUND. WHITTIER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 23, 2:36 AM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
MAZALL-CTZALL-RIZALL-230730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA 235 AM EST MON NOV 23 1992 RADAR AND SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARDS CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS. THESE SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTH AND EAST THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS...PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DRASTICALLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES...AND LOCAL STREET FLOODING IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING THIS MORNING... AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR COMMUTING. REMEMBER TO SLOW DOWN TO PREVENT HYDROPLANING ON WET ROADS...AND TO ALLOW MORE TIME TO REACT UNDER RESTRICTED VISIBILITIES. RW
Special weather statement, Nov 23, 4:49 AM EST, 13 minutes before
CTZALL-MAZ005-231400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT 445 AM EST MON NOV 23 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING THROUGH CONNECTICUT CAUSING LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS HAVE PRODUCED UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN NEW HAVEN COUNTY AND SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN CONNECTICUT EARLY THIS MORNING. POLICE DEPARTMENTS IN SOUTHINGTON AND MERIDEN REPORT STREET FLOODING...MAINLY DUE TO CLOGGED STORM DRAINS WITH ROAD CLOSURES IN MERIDEN. AT 445 AM...RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS ALL OF CONNECTICUT WITH THE HEAVIEST CONCENTRATION FROM BRIDGEPORT NORTHEAST TO MIDDLETOWN AND CONTINUING INTO NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND AND BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS. IF TRAVELING THIS MORNING...BEWARE OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAUSING LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING...IF YOU SEE A ROADWAY UNDER WATER...DO NOT CROSS. ALSO HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY ON THE ROADS...SO ALLOW EXTRA DRIVING SPACE BETWEEN NEIGHBORING MOTORISTS. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MID MORNING WITH THE GREATEST CONCENTRATION OCCURING ALONG THE COAST AND AL2L OF NEW LONDON COUNTY. WHITTIER
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.