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River Flood Warning 62, NWS Boston/Norton, MA

April 12, 2024Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this river flood warning at Apr 12, 2024, 9:46 PM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Apr 13, 2024, 12:42 AM EDT. It was in force for 38 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 12, 2024, 9:46 PM EDT (01:46 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 13, 2024, 12:42 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 14, 2024, 2:43 PM EDT
In force: 38 hr
Issued by: NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 Connecticut River at Northampton (NHMM3).

Action stage: 110 ft
Minor stage: 112 ft
Moderate stage: 115 ft
Major stage: 120 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Apr 12, 7:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 7:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 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 12, 10:51 PM EDT	Gale Warning	BOX		26 hr
Apr 12, 10:51 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BOX		3 days

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.