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Flood Watch 5, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

April 28, 2008Worcester County, Massachusetts; Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flood watch at Apr 28, 2008, 9:35 PM EDT for Worcester County, Massachusetts; Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Apr 28, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 2008, 9:35 PM EDT (01:35 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 28, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 29, 2008, 4:13 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Flood severity
None

Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Worcester County, MA, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2008-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 00:00Z on 2008-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 206 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Apr 28, 7:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 7:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 4:51 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryBOXBristol, Dukes, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth25 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Rhode Island, 2008Flood Watches in Connecticut, 2008Flood Watches in Massachusetts, 2008Every flood watch in 2008

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.