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Areal Flood Warning 22, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

June 14, 2013Providence County, Rhode Island

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this areal flood warning at Jun 14, 2013, 8:57 AM EDT for Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 7 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: Jun 14, 2013, 8:57 AM EDT (12:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2013, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Providence County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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 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 Jun 14, 7:18 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 7:18 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 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
Jun 13, 10:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BOX	Bristol	2 hr
Jun 14, 4:29 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	BOX	Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk	15 hr
Jun 14, 4:29 AM EDT	High Surf Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Nantucket	15 hr
Jun 14, 7:53 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex	20 hr
Jun 14, 2:58 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Worcester	13 hr
Jun 14, 4:18 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	44 hr
Jun 13, 10:58 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	69 hr
Jun 13, 11:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	2 hr
Jun 14, 12:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	8 hr
Jun 14, 4:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	4 hr
Jun 14, 7:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	9 hr
Jun 14, 8:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	7 hr
Jun 14, 3:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BOX		13 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Rhode Island, 2013 Every areal flood warning in 2013

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.