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Flood Watch 7, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this flood watch at Jul 30, 2025, 2:08 PM EDT for Capitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. It took effect at Jul 31, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2025, 2:08 PM EDT (18:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 31, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2025, 8:58 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Capitol Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
Nearby
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.