Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1998, 11:00 AM EDT for Middlesex County, Norfolk County, Worcester County, Massachusetts; Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for . 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 15, 1998, 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 15, 11:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Suffolk | |
| Jun 15, 11:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 1998Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 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.