Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Issued

Sep 28, 2003, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)

Expired

Sep 28, 2003, 6:30 PM EDT

In force

6 hr

Issued by

NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The Boston radar (KBOX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS51 KBOX 281634
FFWBOX
CTC003-MAC013-015-282230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1235 PM EDT SUN SEP 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
    INCLUDING WINDSOR LOCKS...WEST HARTFORD...NEWINGTON...NEW
    BRITAIN...MANCHESTER...EAST HARTFORD...BRISTOL
  HAMPDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING SPRINGFIELD...CHICOPEE
  HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING NORTHAMPTON...AMHERST

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 1230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SHOWERS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL COVERING MUCH OF THE CONNECTICUT 
  RIVER VALLEY...AND EXTENDING SOUTH TO LONG ISLAND.  THE SHOWERS
  WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

  SIGNIFICANT URBAN FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN HARTFORD
  AND HAMPDEN COUNTIES...AND IS IMMINENT IN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY AS
  HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES THROUGH 3 PM.  FLOODING OF SMALLER RIVERS AND
  STREAMS IS ALSO LIKELY.  RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES CAN BE
  EXPECTED.

RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF CREEKS AND 
STREAMS...ROADS...BRIDGE UNDERPASSES AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS.  NEVER 
ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS...EVEN IF THE WATER APPEARS 
TO BE SHALLOW.

$$

LAT...LON 4222 7301 4237 7303 4251 7298 4244 7271
          4242 7237 4203 7242 4203 7251 4163 7249
          4161 7274 4155 7293 4177 7298 4198 7288
          4198 7302 4207 7306

DELLICARPINI

000 
WGUS71 KBOX 281955
FFSBOX
CTC003-MAC011-013-015-282245-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
355 PM EDT SUN SEP 28 2003

...RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH THROUGH THIS EVENING IN THE CONNECTICUT 
RIVER VALLEY...

FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM FOR HARTFORD 
COUNTY CONNECTICUT...AND FOR HAMPDEN...HAMPSHIRE AND FRANKLIN 
COUNTIES IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS ENDED IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY...BUT 
ANOTHER ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED BEFORE THE 
SHOWERS END THIS EVENING.  FLOOD WATERS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE THIS 
EVENING.

AS OF 345 PM...MANY COMMUNITIES NEAR THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FROM 
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INTO NORTHERN CONNECTICUT REPORTED SIGNIFICANT 
URBAN FLOODING...WITH SEVERAL FEET OF WATER ON SOME ROADWAYS AND 
SOME VEHICLES STRANDED BY FLOOD WATERS.

SEVERAL SMALLER RIVERS AND STREAMS WERE ALSO OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
IN HADLEY MASSACHUSETTS...FORT RIVER AND RUSSELL BROOK WERE FLOODING 
NEARBY FARMLAND.  IN NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT...WILLOW BROOK WAS OUT 
OF ITS BANKS AND WAS FLOODING WILLOW BROOK PARK.

NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES OR ROADS WHERE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY. IT ONLY TAKES A FOOT OR TWO OF WATER TO WASH MOST CARS AWAY.

$$

JWD

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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.