Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2005, 2:44 PM EDT for Franklin County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2005, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2005, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, MA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KBOX 091845
FFWBOX
MAC011-092045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
244 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
* UNTIL 445 PM EDT
* AT 236 PM EDT...VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED FROM A THUNDERSTORM
NEAR CONWAY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENFIELD. THE STORM
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NEAR...
CONWAY BY 255 PM EDT
WHATELY BY 400 PM EDT
SUNDERLAND BY 415 PM EDT
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS MAY RESULT IN
FLOODING OF ROAD INTERSECTIONS AND LOW LYING AREAS...INCLUDING
UNDERPASSES AND TUNNELS. KNOW ALTERNATE ROUTES FOR TRAVEL IN CASE
ROADS BECOME IMPASSABLE.
LAT...LON 4258 7279 4250 7283 4243 7262 4246 7255
4254 7261
$$
AED1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS71 KBOX 091954
FFSBOX
MAC011-092002-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
352 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FOR SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY
HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER
FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS DISSIPATED. THEREFORE THE THREAT OF FLASH
FLOODING HAS ENDED.
LAT...LON 4258 7279 4250 7283 4243 7262 4246 7255
4254 7261
$$Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.