Alert archive / Massachusetts / Areal Flood Warnings in 2013
Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this areal flood warning at Jun 7, 2013, 5:20 PM EDT for 5 counties in Massachusetts; Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 4 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 7, 2013, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2013, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Worcester County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 7, 4:37 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 4:37 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:50 AM EDT | Gale Watch | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Jun 7, 3:50 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 31 hr | |
| Jun 7, 3:50 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 55 hr | |
| Jun 7, 3:54 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth | 30 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:54 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 55 hr | |
| Jun 7, 3:56 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Worcester | 15 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:06 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket and 3 more | 50 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampden | 83 min |
| Jun 7, 6:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes | 92 min |
| Jun 7, 7:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:56 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 9 days |
Nearby
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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.