Alert archive / Massachusetts / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007

Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 3, 2007Franklin County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2007, 6:50 PM EDT for Franklin County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 85 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2007, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2007, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
85 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 2007-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1646 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 2007-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBOX 032252
FFWBOX
MAC011-040015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
650 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 643 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED 
  AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WARWICK...
  ROWE...LEYDEN...HEATH...GILL...ERVING...COLRAIN...CHARLEMONT...
  BUCKLAND AND BERNARDSTON

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

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 4273 7291 4271 7230 4242 7232 4244 7264
      4254 7288 4254 7289 4257 7294
TIME...MOT...LOC 2250Z 180DEG 0KT 4259 7272

$$

NOCERA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin59 min
Aug 3, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin62 min
Aug 3, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester64 min
Aug 3, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin, Hampshire30 min
Aug 3, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXWorcester62 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.