Alert archive / Rhode Island / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005

Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

September 15, 2005Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 2005, 12:52 PM EDT for Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 15, 2005, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2005, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 15, 1:50 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Coventry, RI	CARS IN THE PARKING LOT OF COVENTRY HIGH SCHOOL HAVE WATER UP TO THE CAR DOORS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBOX 151656
FFWBOX
RIC003-007-151945-
/0..000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1252 PM EDT THU SEP 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  KENT COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WARWICK
  SOUTHERN PROVIDENCE COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 1247 PM EDT...HEAVY RAIN PERSISTED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHERN
  PROVIDENCE COUNTY AND KENT COUNTY.  WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED THAT
  THERE WAS 3 FEET OF WATER ON PORTIONS OF PONTIAC AVENUE IN
  CRANSTON WITH WITH CARS STUCK IN THE ROADWAY.  ANOTHER REPORT OF
  FLOODING WAS RECEIVED IN THE TIOGUE AVENUE AREA ALONG THE WEST
  WARWICK AND COVENTRY LINE.  

TWO TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THESE AREAS.  AN ADDITIONAL 1 
TO 3 INCHES MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON CAUSING SMALL STREAMS AND 
CREEKS TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS.

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

LAT...LON 4173 7179 4160 7177 4163 7138 4179 7136
      4183 7154

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FIELD/NOCERA

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.