Alert archive / Rhode Island / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 6:03 AM EDT for Bristol County, Massachusetts; Bristol County, Newport County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 14 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 14, 1998, 6:03 AM EDT (10:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bristol County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Newport County, RI
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, Jun 14, 12:16 AM EDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1216 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM SOUTH FOSTER RI FLOODING
06/13/98 PROVIDENCE PONAGANSET RIVER OUT OF
ITS BANKS.
1000 PM WINCHESTER MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ABERJONA RIVER REPORTED
OUT OF ITS BANKS.
1100 PM ARLINGTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ALEWIFE BROOK HAS RISEN
OUT OF ITS BANKS FLOODING
A PORTION OF RT 16.
1115 PM MEDFORD MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX MYSTIC RIVER HAD RISEN OUT
OF ITS BANKS.
1130 PM BOSTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 SUFFOLK MUDDY RIVER CONTINED IN
FLOOD SEVERAL FEET OUT OF
BANK.
1200 AM FRANKLIN MA FLOODING
06/14/98 NORFOLK MILL BROOK CONTINUED IN
FLOOD.Local storm report, Jun 14, 12:16 AM EDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1216 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM SOUTH FOSTER RI FLOODING
06/13/98 PROVIDENCE PONAGANSET RIVER OUT OF
ITS BANKS.
1000 PM WINCHESTER MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ABERJONA RIVER REPORTED
OUT OF ITS BANKS.
1100 PM ARLINGTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ALEWIFE BROOK HAS RISEN
OUT OF ITS BANKS FLOODING
A PORTION OF RT 16.
1115 PM MEDFORD MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX MYSTIC RIVER HAD RISEN OUT
OF ITS BANKS.
1130 PM BOSTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 SUFFOLK MUDDY RIVER CONTINED IN
FLOOD SEVERAL FEET OUT OF
BANK.
1200 AM FRANKLIN MA FLOODING
06/14/98 NORFOLK MILL BROOK CONTINUED IN
FLOOD.Local storm report, Jun 14, 12:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1230 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM SOUTH FOSTER RI FLOODING
06/13/98 PROVIDENCE PONAGANSET RIVER OUT OF
ITS BANKS.
1000 PM WINCHESTER MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ABERJONA RIVER REPORTED
OUT OF ITS BANKS.
1100 PM ARLINGTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ALEWIFE BROOK HAS RISEN
OUT OF ITS BANKS FLOODING
A PORTION OF RT 16.
1115 PM MEDFORD MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX MYSTIC RIVER HAD RISEN OUT
OF ITS BANKS.
1130 PM BOSTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 SUFFOLK MUDDY RIVER CONTINED IN
FLOOD SEVERAL FEET OUT OF
BANK.
1200 AM FRANKLIN MA FLOODING
06/14/98 NORFOLK MILL BROOK CONTINUED IN
FLOOD.
1200 AM SOMERSET MA FLOODING
06/14/98 BRISTOL BUFFINGTON BROOK FLOODING
A PORTION OF RT 138.Local storm report, Jun 14, 12:30 AM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
1230 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM SOUTH FOSTER RI FLOODING
06/13/98 PROVIDENCE PONAGANSET RIVER OUT OF
ITS BANKS.
1000 PM WINCHESTER MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ABERJONA RIVER REPORTED
OUT OF ITS BANKS.
1100 PM ARLINGTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX ALEWIFE BROOK HAS RISEN
OUT OF ITS BANKS FLOODING
A PORTION OF RT 16.
1115 PM MEDFORD MA FLOODING
06/13/98 MIDDLESEX MYSTIC RIVER HAD RISEN OUT
OF ITS BANKS.
1130 PM BOSTON MA FLOODING
06/13/98 SUFFOLK MUDDY RIVER CONTINED IN
FLOOD SEVERAL FEET OUT OF
BANK.
1200 AM FRANKLIN MA FLOODING
06/14/98 NORFOLK MILL BROOK CONTINUED IN
FLOOD.
1200 AM SOMERSET MA FLOODING
06/14/98 BRISTOL BUFFINGTON BROOK FLOODING
A PORTION OF RT 138.The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 22 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Worcester | 22 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol | 22 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 20 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Worcester | 20 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol | 20 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 22 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Washington | 14 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Rhode Island, 1998Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 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.