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Areal Flood Warning 15, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

May 1, 2014Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this areal flood warning at May 1, 2014, 3:25 AM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 3 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: May 1, 2014, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2014, 6:15 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Capitol Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:27 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 376 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 684 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Apr 30, 10:17 PM EDT, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 10:17 PM EDT, 5 hours 8 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
Apr 30, 11:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Hampden, Hampshire	4 hr
May 1, 4:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	3 hr
May 1, 7:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Plymouth	3 hr
May 1, 1:21 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BOX	Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth	14 hr
May 1, 4:12 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	3 hr
May 1, 7:15 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington	2 hr
May 1, 12:10 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Washington	63 hr
May 1, 3:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region	3 hr
May 1, 6:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	118 min
May 1, 6:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	2 hr
May 1, 7:08 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	27 hr
May 1, 8:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BOX	Capitol Planning Region	3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Connecticut, 2014 Every areal flood warning in 2014

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.