Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1998, 3:08 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Norfolk County, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 10 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 1:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Providence County, RI
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Suffolk | 10 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol | 10 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Essex | 9 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Kent | 9 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 1998Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 1998Flash Flood Warnings in Rhode Island, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.