Alert archive / Rhode Island / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 19, 1998Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1998, 4:16 PM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 114 min. 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 19, 1998, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Providence County, RI

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-19Temperature 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, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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 
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
416 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND

* UNTIL 610 PM EDT

* AT 415 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BURRILLVILLE AND GLOCESTER...
  MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.  OTHER STORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE
  COUNTY FROM SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY

* BURRILLVILLE...GLOCESTER...SMITHFIELD AND NORTH SMITHFIELD ARE
  LIKELY TO RECEIVE BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THESE
  STORMS.

* SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS LIKELY TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE THE
  NIPMUC RIVER THROUGH HARRISVILLE AND STREAMS FLOWING INTO THE
  WILSON RESERVOIR IN BURRILLVILLE

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR
OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE  TO HIGHER
GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

JL/WGH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWashington46 min
Jun 19, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXProvidence45 min
Jun 19, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXProvidence42 min
Jun 19, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXKent43 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.