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River Flood Watch 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this river flood watch at May 10, 2025, 5:28 AM EDT for Hampden County, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It took effect at May 11, 2025, 5:36 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2025, 5:28 AM EDT (09:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 11, 2025, 5:36 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 11, 2025, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
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 09:32 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 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 watch 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 watch went out at May 10, 3:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 3:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:47 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 40 hr |
| May 10, 5:28 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | BOX | Hampden | 45 hr |
| May 10, 12:04 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Hampden, Hampshire | 40 hr |
| May 10, 12:04 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 46 hr |
| May 10, 12:04 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Hampden | 46 hr |
| May 10, 12:04 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 31 hr |
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River Flood Watches in Massachusetts, 2025Every river flood watch in 2025
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.