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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

April 16, 2018Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this areal flood warning at Apr 16, 2018, 7:33 PM EDT for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 117 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 16, 2018, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 2018, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2018-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2018-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 902 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
391 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
902 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
990 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

As transmitted.

715 
WGUS41 KBOX 162333
FLWBOX

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
733 PM EDT MON APR 16 2018

CTC013-015-170130-
/O.NEW.KBOX.FA.W.0021.180416T2333Z-180417T0130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
Windham CT-Tolland CT-
733 PM EDT MON APR 16 2018

The National Weather Service in Boston/Norton has issued a

* Flood Warning for Small Streams in...
  West central Windham County in northern Connecticut...
  Central Tolland County in northern Connecticut...

* Until 930 PM EDT.

* At 731 PM EDT, water levels along the small streams of west 
  central Windham county and central and eastern Tolland county 
  remain close to flood stage, including the Willimantic River in 
  Coventry and the Mount Hope River in Warrenville. The river level 
  may brief reach flood stage this evening, then fall below flood 
  later tonight. 

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Mansfield, Windham, Willimantic, Tolland, Coventry, Hebron,
  Willington, Columbia, Ashford, Andover, Chaplin and Hampton.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.

&&

LAT...LON 4188 7237 4192 7214 4175 7208 4168 7236

$$

EVT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 11:15 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOXCapitol Planning Region4 hr
Apr 16, 12:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region4 hr
Apr 16, 1:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBOX36 min
Apr 16, 1:26 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region6 hr
Apr 16, 5:49 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region116 min
Apr 16, 7:42 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region2 hr

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.