Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Watches in 2006
Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood watch at Jun 1, 2006, 3:12 PM EDT for 8 counties in Massachusetts; 5 counties in Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jun 1, 2006, 5:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2006, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 1, 2006, 5:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2006, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Bristol County, MA, Essex County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 1, 12:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 12:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 4:08 AM EDT, 11 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 408 AM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>008-020900- BARNSTABLE MA-BLOCK ISLAND RI-BRISTOL RI-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- CHESHIRE NH-DUKES MA-EASTERN ESSEX MA-EASTERN FRANKLIN MA- EASTERN HAMPDEN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH- EASTERN KENT RI-EASTERN NORFOLK MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA-HARTFORD CT- NANTUCKET MA-NEWPORT RI-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA- NORTHWEST MIDDLESEX MA-NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI- SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA- SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA-SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-SUFFOLK MA-TOLLAND CT- WASHINGTON RI-WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-WESTERN ESSEX MA- WESTERN FRANKLIN MA-WESTERN HAMPDEN MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- WESTERN KENT RI-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-WINDHAM CT- 408 AM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS... EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS...SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS...WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE... CENTRAL RHODE ISLAND...NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NANTUCKET THROUGH 9 AM. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A BOSTON...TO TAUNTON... TO PROVIDENCE LINE INCLUDING CONNECTICUT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AS WELL AS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS WHERE THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING FROM ANY THUNDERSTORM. AN ISOLATED LOCATION MAY RECEIVE OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS. PLEASE SEE OUR FLOOD STATEMENT FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. IN ADDITION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR THEM ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND INTERIOR MASSACHUSETTS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BETWEEN NOON AND 8 PM. PLEASE SEE OUR SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION. FINALLY...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY MORNING. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS BY SATURDAY SHOULD AVERAGE BETWEEN 1.50 AND 4 INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS BETWEEN 5 AND 7 INCHES. A FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK CONTINUES FOR THIS AND FLOOD WATCHES MAY EVENTUALLY BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS EXPECTED TODAY AFTER 12 PM FOR THE POTENTIAL OF A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITY FOR ISOLATED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. FRANK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 11:57 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1157 AM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>016-026-NHZ011-012-015-RIZ001>004-012000- CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA-CHESHIRE NH-EASTERN ESSEX MA- EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH-EASTERN KENT RI-EASTERN NORFOLK MA- HARTFORD CT-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-NORTHWEST MIDDLESEX MA- NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA- SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA-SUFFOLK MA-TOLLAND CT- WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH-WESTERN ESSEX MA- WESTERN FRANKLIN MA-WESTERN HAMPDEN MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA- WESTERN KENT RI-WESTERN NORFOLK MA-WINDHAM CT- 1157 AM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 ...THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS... STREET FLOODING RAINS AND SMALL HAIL IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF INTERIOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON REACHING THE EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS COAST AND THE UPPER PART OF NARRAGANSETT BAY LATE IN THE DAY. STORMS WERE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING DURING MIDDAY OVER EASTERN NEW YORK STATE. THEY WILL DEVELOP IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY BETWEEN 130 PM AND 330 PM...REACHING THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR FROM NEWBURYPORT TO BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE LATE IN THE DAY. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. THAT MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO DOWN LARGE BRANCHES...OR EVEN BRING DOWN TREES WHICH HAVE BEEN WEAKENED BY THE RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BANDS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY EVEN SMALL HAIL. THESE STRONGER STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY TO AFFECT NORTHERN CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN AND CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE. IF YOU HAVE OUTDOOR PLANS...BE ALERT FOR SIGNS OF THREATENING WEATHER...AND GET INDOORS IMMEDIATELY IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES TODAY. DRAG
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, 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 |
| Jun 1, 7:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 115 min |
| Jun 1, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 4:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Capitol Planning Region | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 36 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Massachusetts, 2006Flash Flood Watches in Rhode Island, 2006Flash Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2006Every flash flood watch 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.