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River Flood Warning 18, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

January 13, 2024Norfolk County, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this river flood warning at Jan 13, 2024, 8:50 AM EST for Norfolk County, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jan 13, 2024, 9:25 AM EST. It was in force for 34 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2024, 8:50 AM EST (13:50 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 13, 2024, 9:25 AM EST
Expired: Jan 14, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 34 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:50 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 river

Written for the forecast point Neponset River at Norwood (NRWM3).

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 11 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01105000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Jan 13, 6:47 AM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 6:47 AM EST, 2 hours 3 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
Jan 12, 8:12 PM EST	Storm Warning	BOX		16 hr
Jan 13, 11:30 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BOX	Middlesex, Worcester	21 days
Jan 13, 3:28 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BOX	Dukes, Nantucket	28 hr
Jan 13, 7:41 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Kent, Providence, Washington	3 hr
Jan 13, 10:58 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BOX	Providence	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Massachusetts, 2024 Every river flood warning in 2024

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.