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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

July 13, 1996Worcester County, Massachusetts; Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 1:17 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts; Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 1996, 1:17 PM EDT (17:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1996, 1:15 AM EDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Worcester County, MA, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 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 131717
FFWBOS
MAC027-RIC003-007-140515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
117 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM EDT FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
 
   ...WORCESTER COUNTY
 
IN CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND
 
   ...KENT COUNTY
 
IN NORTH RHODE ISLAND
 
   ...PROVIDENCE COUNTY
 
AT 115 PM...WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE INTENSE RAIN BANDS
ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM BERTHA MOVING NORTH INTO RHODE ISLAND AND
HEADING FOR WORCESTER COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. THUS FAR UP TO 3.5 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN IN KENT...PROVIDENCE AND WORCESTER COUNTIES. BASED ON
RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL...AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES MAY FALL DURING
THE AFTERNOON.
 
FLOOD GUIDANCE INDICATES THAT 4 TO 4.5 INCHES OF RAIN IS NEEDED TO BEGIN
FLOODING OF SOME SMALL STREAMS IN THESE COUNTIES.  WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 2
INCHES LIKELY BY 4 PM...STORM TOTAL RAINFALL WOULD APPROACH 5 INCHES
...LEADING TO SMALL STREAM FLOODING AND FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS
BY EARLY TONIGHT.  SOME OF THE SLOWER RESPONDING RIVERS AND
STREAMS...SUCH AS THE PAWTUXET RIVER...MAY NOT COMPLETELY RESPOND TO THE
HEAVY RAINFALL UNTIL LATE TONIGHT.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER S@HOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
DRV/WTB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 2:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Norfolk	10 hr
Jul 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Franklin, Hampshire	6 hr
Jul 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Hampden	6 hr
Jul 13, 4:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Middlesex	20 min
Jul 13, 3:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BOX	Washington	34 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Rhode Island, 1996 Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.