Alert archive / Connecticut / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 22, 1999, 7:50 AM EST for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 4 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
- Mar 22, 1999, 7:50 AM EST (12:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1999, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Capitol Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 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 KBOX 221251 FFWBOS CTC003-221645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 750 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY IN CONNECTICUT INCLUDING BURLINGTON * UNTIL 1145 AM EST * AT 746 AM EST...THE BURLINGTON BROOK IN BURLINGTON WAS RISING VERY RAPIDLY. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. OTHER SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL LIKELY RISE VERY RAPIDLY OVER THEIR BANKS THIS MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. VALLEE
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, Mar 22, 6:50 AM EST, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS
650 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 AM PETERBOROUGH NH NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 HILLSBOROUGH LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN ONTO
ROOF OF HOUSE...PER
SPOTTER.
0635 AM NEW BEDFORD MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL A 6-FOOT SIGN WAS BLOWN
INTO STREET.
0640 AM NEW BEDFORD MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL LARGE TREE DOWN BLOCKING
ROAD AND TOOK DOWN WIRES
ON CHARLES STREET...
REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.Local storm report, Mar 22, 7:11 AM EST, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
711 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 AM PETERBOROUGH NH NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 HILLSBOROUGH LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN ONTO
ROOF OF HOUSE...PER
SPOTTER.
0635 AM NEW BEDFORD MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL A 6-FOOT SIGN WAS BLOWN
INTO STREET.
0640 AM NEW BEDFORD MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL LARGE TREE DOWN BLOCKING
ROAD AND TOOK DOWN WIRES
ON CHARLES STREET...
REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0650 AM DARTMOUTH MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL WINDOW BLOWN OUT OF STORE.
REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0652 AM MATTAPOISETT MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 PLYMOUTH TREE DOWN BLOCKING PART OF
FAIRHAVEN ROAD...PER
AMATEUR RADIO.
0706 AM MILTON MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 NORFOLK WIND GUST TO 77 MPH ATOP
BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY.
FIELD/DUNHAMLocal storm report, Mar 22, 7:11 AM EST, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
711 AM EST MON MAR 22 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 AM PETERBOROUGH NH NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 HILLSBOROUGH LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN ONTO
ROOF OF HOUSE...PER
SPOTTER.
0635 AM NEW BEDFORD MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL A 6-FOOT SIGN WAS BLOWN
INTO STREET.
0640 AM NEW BEDFORD MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL LARGE TREE DOWN BLOCKING
ROAD AND TOOK DOWN WIRES
ON CHARLES STREET...
REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0650 AM DARTMOUTH MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 BRISTOL WINDOW BLOWN OUT OF STORE.
REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO.
0652 AM MATTAPOISETT MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 PLYMOUTH TREE DOWN BLOCKING PART OF
FAIRHAVEN ROAD...PER
AMATEUR RADIO.
0706 AM MILTON MA NON TSTM WINDS
03/22/99 NORFOLK WIND GUST TO 77 MPH ATOP
BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY.
FIELD/DUNHAMNearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.