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River Flood Warning 78, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

March 31, 2010Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this river flood warning at Mar 31, 2010, 12:01 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Mar 31, 2010, 3:59 PM EDT. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 2010, 12:01 PM EDT (16:01 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 31, 2010, 3:59 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 1, 2010, 8:58 PM EDT
In force
29 hr
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Flood severity
Minor

Counties Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Connecticut River at Northampton (NHMM3).

Action stage
110 ft
Minor stage
112 ft
Moderate stage
115 ft
Major stage
120 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 31, 11:08 AM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 11:08 AM EDT, 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 5:06 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBOX23 hr
Mar 31, 12:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOX6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2010Every river flood warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.