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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2006, 6:57 PM EDT for 4 counties in Massachusetts. It was in force for 93 min. 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 1, 2006, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2006, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 012259
FFWBOX
MAC017-021-025-027-020030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
657 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN WORCESTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WORCESTER...MILFORD
SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WALTHAM...SOMERVILLE...NEWTON...
FRAMINGHAM...CAMBRIDGE
NORFOLK COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WEYMOUTH...QUINCY...FRANKLIN...
BROOKLINE
SUFFOLK COUNTY IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOSTON
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 655 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED THAT URBAN FLASH FLOODING
WAS OCCURRING IN THE VICINTY OF SOUTHBRIDGE FROM A THUNDERSTORM
CENTERED NEAR MILLIS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
WRENTHAM...WINTHROP...WHITINSVILLE...WESTWOOD...WESTON...
WESTBOROUGH...WELLESLEY...WAYLAND...WATERTOWN...WALPOLE...
UXBRIDGE...UPTON...SUTTON...SUDBURY...STOW...STOUGHTON...
SOUTHBOROUGH...SHREWSBURY...SHERBORN...SHARON...REVERE...
RANDOLPH...NORWOOD...NORTHBRIDGE...NORTHBOROUGH...NORFOLK...
NEEDHAM...NATICK...MILTON...MILLVILLE...MILLBURY...MENDON...
MEDWAY...MEDFORD...MEDFIELD...MAYNARD...MARLBOROUGH...MALDEN...
LINCOLN...LEXINGTON...HUDSON...HOPKINTON...HOPEDALE...HOLLISTON...
HOLBROOK...GRAFTON...FOXBOROUGH...EVERETT...DOVER...DOUGLAS...
DEDHAM...CHELSEA...CANTON...BRAINTREE...BOYLSTON...BOLTON...
BERLIN...BELMONT...BELLINGHAM...AUBURN...ASHLAND AND ARLINGTON.
RADAR IS ESTIMATING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM. URBAN FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.
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 4226 7185 4202 7182 4202 7137 4216 7091
4244 7101 4244 7165
$$
NMB1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KBOX 020029 FFSBOX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 826 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 MAC017-021-025-027-020036- WORCESTER MA-NORFOLK MA-SUFFOLK MA-MIDDLESEX MA- 826 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX...SUFFOLK...NORFOLK AND SOUTHEASTERN WORCESTER COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 830 PM EDT... HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER THIS EVENING WHICH RESULTED IN SOME LOCALIZED URBAN FLASH FLOODING HAS DIMINISHED SIGNIFICANTLY. WHILE SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE HOUR OR TWO...THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING AS ADDTIONAL PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. $$ DRV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:27 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 12 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Hampden, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and 2 more | 51 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Hampden | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Worcester | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Norfolk | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 70 days | |
| Jun 1, 7:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 115 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.