Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 3, 1995Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1995, 8:08 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1995, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Hampshire County, MA

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBOS 040007
FFWBOS
MAC015-040315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
808 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...NORTHERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHWEST
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING TO THE WEST AND
THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME SMALL STREAMS TO
OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS TONIGHT.
 
IN ADDITION...CONSIDERABLE STREET FLOODING IS LIKELY AS THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
DRV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester66 min
Jun 3, 10:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXHampshire, Worcester71 min

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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.