Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Issued

Sep 28, 2003, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)

Expired

Sep 28, 2003, 6:30 PM EDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Boston/Norton, MA

Area

Whole counties

County Franklin County, MA

The Albany radar (KENX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS51 KBOX 281812
FFWBOX
MAC011-282215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
    INCLUDING GREENFIELD

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT.

* AT 210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SHOWERS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CONTINUING OVER MUCH OF FRANKLIN
  COUNTY...AND EXTENDING SOUTH THROUGH MUCH OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER
  VALLEY.

  ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL TAPER OFF BY 4 PM...RUNOFF WILL
  LIKELY CAUSE SMALLER RIVERS AND STREAMS TO RISE OUT OF THEIR 
  BANKS.  SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING IS ALSO EXPECTED. 

FLASH FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY DUE TO THE TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL. CULVERTS ALONG ROADSIDES MAY BE WASHED OUT. STANDING WATER
ON ROADWAYS AND ESPECIALLY UNDERPASSES MAY RISE TO SEVERAL FEET IN
DEPTH SUBMERGING MOST VEHICLES.

$$

LAT...LON 4273 7288 4272 7231 4265 7223 4251 7229
          4242 7229 4249 7278 4256 7295

JWD

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

Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.