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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2013, 11:36 AM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 114 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2013, 11:36 AM EDT (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Capitol Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:38 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 was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 12:10 PM EDT | FLOOD | New Britain, CT | SEVERAL STREETS FLOODED WITH 4 TO 8 INCHES OF WATER. A CAR WAS STUCK IN FLOOD WATERS ON GOLDEN HILL STREET. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
751
WGUS51 KBOX 021536
FFWBOX
CTC003-021730-
/O.NEW.KBOX.FF.W.0052.130902T1536Z-130902T1730Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1136 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HARTFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT...
* UNTIL 130 PM EDT
* AT 1133 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HARTFORD COUNTY. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR.
FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
HARTFORD...NEW BRITAIN...WEST HARTFORD...BRISTOL...MANCHESTER...
ENFIELD...SOUTHINGTON...GLASTONBURY...NEWINGTON...
WINDSOR...WETHERSFIELD...SOUTH WINDSOR...FARMINGTON...SIMSBURY...
BLOOMFIELD...BERLIN...ROCKY HILL...AVON...PLAINVILLE...WINDSOR
LOCKS...EAST WINDSOR...CANTON AND BURLINGTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ISSUED FOR RAPID AND POTENTIALLY LIFE
THREATENING FLOODING. IN URBAN AREAS AVOID FLOODED ROADS AND OBEY
ROAD CLOSURES. THOSE NEAR SMALL STREAMS MUST HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY.
&&
LAT...LON 4195 7256 4168 7249 4163 7267 4163 7271
4162 7272 4156 7292 4179 7299
$$
AEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 21 hr |
| Sep 2, 11:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 42 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.