Alert archive / Massachusetts / Red Flag Warnings in 2006
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this red flag warning at Apr 20, 2006, 11:00 AM EDT for 9 counties in Massachusetts; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut; Kent County, Providence County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2006, 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Bristol County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1373 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS81 KBOX 201500 RFWBOX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1100 AM EDT THU APR 20 2006 CTZ002>004-MAZ002>006-008>014-017-018-026-NHZ011-012-015- RIZ001>004-006-202300- /O.NEW.KBOX.FW.W.0008.060420T1500Z-060421T0000Z/ HARTFORD CT-TOLLAND CT-WINDHAM CT-WESTERN FRANKLIN MA- EASTERN FRANKLIN MA-NORTHERN WORCESTER MA-CENTRAL MIDDLESEX MA- WESTERN ESSEX MA-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-WESTERN HAMPDEN MA- EASTERN HAMPSHIRE MA-EASTERN HAMPDEN MA-SOUTHERN WORCESTER MA- WESTERN NORFOLK MA-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX MA-NORTHERN BRISTOL MA- WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX MA-CHESHIRE NH- EASTERN HILLSBOROUGH NH-WESTERN AND CENTRAL HILLSBOROUGH NH- NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE RI-SOUTHEAST PROVIDENCE RI-WESTERN KENT RI- EASTERN KENT RI-WASHINGTON RI- 1100 AM EDT THU APR 20 2006 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE RED FLAG WARNING INCLUDES NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...MOST OF RHODE ISLAND...AND SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE. IT ALSO INCLUDES WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND INTERIOR EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY AWAY FROM THE COAST IS 15 TO 25 PERCENT AND WINDS ARE STARTING TO GUST OVER 20 MPH. IN ADDITION THE REGION HAS HAD LITTLE RAIN IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS. SHOULD A FIRE START...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR RAPID FIRE SPREAD. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$ WTB
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Massachusetts, 2006Red Flag Warnings in Rhode Island, 2006Red Flag Warnings in Connecticut, 2006Every red flag 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.