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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
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.
- 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
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
$$
BELKThe 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, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester | 93 min |
Nearby
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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.