Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 11, 2003Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2003, 4:48 PM EDT for Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. 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: Aug 11, 2003, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2003, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBOX 112049
FFWBOX
MAC011-015-120045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
ISSUED BY NWS ALBANY NY
448 PM EDT MON AUG 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BOSTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
  NORTHWESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 439 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN IN WESTERN FRANKLIN AND NORTHWESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTIES.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...GREENFIELD...SHELBURNE FALLS AND
  TURNERS FALLS

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$

LAT...LON 4234 7305 4234 7265 4271 7252 4271 7292

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KBOX 120140
FFSBOX
MAC011-015-NHC011-120230-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
935 PM EDT MON AUG 11 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY...WESTERN
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH BROUGHT TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THIS
EVENING ACROSS NORTHWESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
NEW HAMPSHIRE HAVE MOVED OUTSIDE OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. RAINFALL
TOTALS GIVEN BY SPOTTERS AND RADAR ESTIMATES...LOCALLY RANGED AS 
HIGH AS 2.5 TO 3.5 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN HAMPSHIRE 
COUNTY...FROM PLAINFIELD TO CUMMINGTON AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH 
COUNTY NEAR MONT VERNON. CONFIRMED ROAD CLOSURES WERE NOTED IN
WESTERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY BETWEEN 430 PM AND 730 PM THIS EVENING.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER 
OF TONIGHT AND ONCE AGAIN ON TUESDAY. HOWEVER THE THREAT FOR IMMINENT
FLOODING HAS CURRENTLY EXPIRED.

$$

STRAUSS

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.