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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 4 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 23, 2006, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 231958 FFWBOX CTC013-015-240000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 356 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL TOLLAND COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MANSFIELD NORTHERN WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PUTNAM * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 354 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING AND MOVING OVER PORTIONS OF TOLLAND AND WINDHAM COUNTIES FROM VERNON TO THOMPSON. THE AREA WAS ONLY DRIFTING SOUTHEAST. A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SKYWARN SPOTTER INDICATED 3.62 INCHES IN JUST 45 MINUTES. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KILLINGLY...WOODSTOCK...WILLINGTON...TOLLAND...THOMPSON... POMFRET...ELLINGTON...EASTFORD AND ASHFORD DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 4174 7245 4178 7179 4202 7180 4192 7249 $$ VALLEE
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBOX 232059 FFSBOX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 455 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 CTC013-015-240000- TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT- 455 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR WINDHAM AND TOLLAND COUNTIES... AT 453 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL STRETCHING FROM BOLTON TO WILLINGTON EAST TO WOODSTOCK AND PUTNAM. WHILE THE LINE HAS DRIFTED SOUTHWARD IN THE PAST HOUR...NEW STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TO THE SOUTHWEST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS TOLLAND AND WINDHAM COUNTIES THIS EVENING. SMALL RIVER BASINS WHICH HAVE RECEIVED TORRENTIAL RAINFALL INCLUDE OGDEN BROOK...THE TANKERHOOSEN RIVER AND THE HOP RIVER. SMALL RIVER BASINS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS INCLUDE THE MOUNT HOPE RIVER...THE BEAR SWAMP RIVER AND THE HOP RIVER BASIN. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ VALLEE
000 WGUS71 KBOX 232219 FFSBOX FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 618 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 CTC013-015-240000- TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT- 618 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR WINDHAM AND TOLLAND COUNTIES... AT 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH HAVE BEEN AFFECTING TOLLAND AND WINDHAM COUNTIES...ARE WEAKENING AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY EAST. HOWEVER...WHILE RAINFALL RATES HAVE DIMINISHED THE RUNOFF FROM OVER 5 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN JUST A FEW HOURS WILL CONTINUE TO RUNOFF RAPIDLY INTO AREA SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS PRODUCING SOME LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. AREAS HARDEST HIT BY HEAVY RAINS INCLUDE THE TOWNS IN THE FOLLOWING RIVER BASINS...OGDEN BROOK...THE TANKERHOOSEN AND HOP RIVER BASINS AS WELL AS THE MOUNT HOPE BASIN. SHOWERS DO EXTEND SOUTHWEST INTO NEW HAVEN COUNTY...BUT RAINFALL RATES ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER. A SKYWARN SPOTTER IN TOLLAND CONNECTICUT REPORTED 4.53 INCHES IN 1.5 HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE WITH INTERESTS IN THE WARNING AREA SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS EVOLVING FLOOD EVENT. $$ VALLEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:00 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BOX | Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 60 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 23 min | |
| Jun 23, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | 23 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 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.