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Areal Flood Warning 10, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

August 10, 2011Middlesex County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this areal flood warning at Aug 10, 2011, 3:53 AM EDT for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 99 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 10, 2011, 3:53 AM EDT (07:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2011, 5:32 AM EDT
In force: 99 min
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Middlesex County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Aug 10, 3:23 AM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:23 AM EDT, 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 12:05 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		40 min
Aug 10, 12:38 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BOX		52 min
Aug 10, 12:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk	2 hr
Aug 10, 3:49 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	BOX		23 hr
Aug 10, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Hampshire	56 min
Aug 10, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Worcester	53 min
Aug 10, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Worcester	47 min
Aug 10, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Norfolk	62 min
Aug 10, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk, Worcester	41 min
Aug 10, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOX	Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth	51 min
Aug 10, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BOX	Providence	63 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2011 Every areal flood warning in 2011

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.