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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this areal flood warning at Sep 5, 2022, 1:38 PM EDT for Bristol County, Massachusetts; Bristol County, Kent County, Providence County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 82 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2022, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2022, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bristol County, MA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 Sep 5, 10:17 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 10:17 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 408 AM EDT Mon Sep 5 2022 CTZ002>004-MAZ004>007-011>021-026-RIZ001>008-060815- Hartford CT-Tolland CT-Windham CT-Northern Worcester MA- Central Middlesex MA-Western Essex MA-Eastern Essex MA- Eastern Hampden MA-Southern Worcester MA-Western Norfolk MA- Southeast Middlesex MA-Suffolk MA-Eastern Norfolk MA- Northern Bristol MA-Western Plymouth MA-Eastern Plymouth MA- Southern Bristol MA-Southern Plymouth MA-Northern Middlesex MA- Northwest Providence RI-Southeast Providence RI-Western Kent RI- Eastern Kent RI-Bristol RI-Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 408 AM EDT Mon Sep 5 2022 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern Connecticut, central Massachusetts, eastern Massachusetts, northeastern Massachusetts, southeastern Massachusetts, western Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. MAZ002-003-008>010-022>024-060815- Western Franklin MA-Eastern Franklin MA-Western Hampshire MA- Western Hampden MA-Eastern Hampshire MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA- Nantucket MA- 408 AM EDT Mon Sep 5 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeastern Massachusetts and western Massachusetts. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. ANZ230>237-250-251-254>256-060815- Boston Harbor-Cape Cod Bay-Nantucket Sound-Vineyard Sound- Buzzards Bay-Rhode Island Sound-Narragansett Bay-Block Island Sound- Coastal waters east of Ipswich Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary-Massachusetts Bay and Ipswich Bay- Coastal waters from Provincetown MA to Chatham MA to Nantucket MA out 20 nm- Coastal Waters extending out to 25 nm South of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket- Coastal Waters from Montauk NY to Marthas Vineyard extending out to 20 nm South of Block Island- 408 AM EDT Mon Sep 5 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Massachusetts and Rhode Island coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. For more information on upcoming hazardous weather, please see the Area Forecast Discussion on our webpage for the latest forecast thinking. There is also our Enhanced Hazardous Weather Outlook at www.weather.gov/box/ehwo For the latest updates...please visit our webpage at www.weather.gov/boston You can follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NWSBoston You can follow us on Twitter at @NWSBoston
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 5, 9:20 AM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 60 min |
| Sep 5, 3:08 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Essex, Hampden, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and 2 more | 34 hr |
| Sep 5, 3:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 53 min |
| Sep 5, 5:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 9:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 55 min |
| Sep 5, 10:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Worcester | 111 min |
| Sep 5, 2:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Bristol | 5 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 51 min |
| Sep 5, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 53 min |
| Sep 5, 6:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 7:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Kent, Providence | 7 hr |
| Sep 5, 10:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 60 min | |
| Sep 5, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | 55 min | |
| Sep 5, 4:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BOX | Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 2 hr |
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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.