Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1998, 4:32 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 118 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, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Worcester County, MA
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBOS 192032 FFWBOS MAC027-192230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 432 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 425 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SUTTON...OXFORD AND DOUGLAS...MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. * THE TOWNS OF SUTTON...OXFORD AND DOUGLAS CAN EXPECT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS * A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUNFD IMMEDIATELY. WGH/JL
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 19, 3:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
306 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM TAUNTON MA .75 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 BRISTOL DIME SIZE HAIL ON RTE. 140
PER SPOTTER.
0254 PM NORTH KINGSTOWN RI .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 WASHINGTON DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED PER POLICE DEPT.Local storm report, Jun 19, 3:51 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
351 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0233 PM FOXBOROUGH MA .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 NORFOLK NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY FOXBORO FIRE CHIEF.
0240 PM TAUNTON MA .75 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 BRISTOL DIME SIZE HAIL ON RTE. 140
PER SPOTTER.
0254 PM NORTH KINGSTOWN RI .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 WASHINGTON DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED PER POLICE DEPT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.