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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 8, 1992Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1992, 4:44 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1992, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1992, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Capitol Planning Region, CT

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 196 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBDL 082044
FFWBDL
CTC003-082145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARTFORD CT
444 PM EDT MON JUN 8 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARTFORD HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
 
   ...NORTH CENTRAL HARTFORD COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH ENFIELD CONNECTICUT.
THIS STORM COULD CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTING AND SMALL
HAIL. THIS THUNDERSTROMS IS MOVING TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST.
 
 
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.

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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.