Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

September 25, 2001Middlesex County, Worcester County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2001, 1:02 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 3 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
Sep 25, 2001, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Middlesex County, MA, Worcester County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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, 5.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2001-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 103 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KBOX 251702
FFWBOX
FFWBOX
MAC017-027-252000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
102 PM EDT TUE SEP 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS             
    INCLUDING LEOMINSTER...FITCHBURG
  NORTHWESTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING TOWNSEND...ASHBY

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT.

* AT 1257 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED TRAINING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL STRETCHING THROUGH FITCHBURG
  AND LUNENBURG...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.  AT THE FITCHBURG AIRPORT
  3.41 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN 2 HOURS. 

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

$$

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Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.