Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006

Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 1, 2006Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2006, 7:05 PM EDT for Franklin County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 115 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, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2006, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Franklin County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 186 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBOX 012307
FFWBOX
MAC011-015-020100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
705 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GREENFIELD
  NORTHERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF AMHERST

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME VICINITY...STRETCHING 
FROM EAST WINDSOR...CUMMINGTON AND AND PLAINFIELD...EASTWARD THROUGH 
MONTAGUE.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WILLIAMSBURG...WHATELY...WENDELL...SUNDERLAND...SHUTESBURY...
  SHELBURNE...PLAINFIELD...PELHAM...ORANGE...NEW SALEM...MONTAGUE...
  LEVERETT...HAWLEY...HATFIELD...HADLEY...GOSHEN...ERVING... 
  DEERFIELD...CUMMINGTON...CONWAY...CHESTERFIELD AND BUCKLAND.

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

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS...ROADS...BRIDGE UNDERPASSES AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. NEVER
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES OR ROADS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE
ROADWAY COULD BE DAMAGED OR WASHED OUT.

LAT...LON 4238 7306 4240 7299 4259 7296 4260 7226
      4253 7228 4251 7226 4248 7229 4238 7232
      4236 7232 4232 7228 4235 7306

$$

BELK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 9:27 PM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryBOXBarnstable, Dukes, Nantucket12 hr
Jun 1, 3:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchBOXBristol, Essex, Hampden, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and 2 more51 hr
Jun 1, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXHampden31 min
Jun 1, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester50 min
Jun 1, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester34 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNorfolk48 min
Jun 1, 6:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBOX70 days
Jun 1, 6:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBOXMiddlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester93 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.