Massachusetts, 2001

Flood in Massachusetts, April 14 to 16, 2001

April 14 to 16, 2001 · NWS BOX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Minor flooding occurred along the Connecticut River near Northampton. Above normal temperaturesproduced rapid snow melt, and combined with heavy rainfall in the headwaters to bring the Connecticut into flood.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.

Minor flooding occurred along the Connecticut River near Northampton. Above normal temperaturesproduced rapid snow melt, and combined with heavy rainfall in the headwaters to bring the Connecticut into flood. At Northampton, the river crested at 112.4 feet at 1045 am on April 15th (flood stage is 112 feet). Flooding was limited to many riverside roadways and farmland, and no significant flood damage was reported.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 14, 1:45 AM EST, 18 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 1:45 AM EST, 18 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
245 AM EDT SAT APR 14 2001

DISC:  LO CLDNS HANGING TUFF ACRS SRN NH AND PTNS NRN MA ERLY THIS
MRNG...BUT XPCT CLDS TO DSIPT BY DAWN PER MDL XSXNS WHICH INDCT
CONTD LL DRYING AS SFC RDG WORKS IN.  SAT PIX SHOW CLR SKIES BACK
ACRS OH VLY SO LOTS OF BRIGHT SUNSHN ON TAP FOR TDA.

MDLS HAVE BACKED OFF ON AMT OF LL MOISTR/PCPN TNGT AND SUN AS WKNG
TROF PUSHES SWD ACRS FA.  AVN AND TO SOME XTNT ETA SHOW HIEST RH
ACRS NW 1/2 OF FA SO WL GO PTCLDY THERE TNGT AND MOCLR ELSW.  SHUD
BE PLENTY OF SUNSHN FOR SUN BUT WITH SOMEWHAT HIER LL RH WL CALL IT
MOSUNNY IN ALL ZNS.

XTNDED:  PCPN SHUD HOLD OFF TIL MON NGT AS MAIN SFC LO OVR GRTLKS
IS FORCED SE BY H5 CUTOFF COMING OUT OF CANADA.  SECONDARY SFC
DVLPMNT SHUD TAKE PLACE FAR ENUF S NOT TO HAVE AN EFFECT ON SRN NEW
ENG...BUT SYS BECOMES VERTICALLY STACKED AS H5 LO TRACKS OVR OR
JUST S OF NEW ENG TUE EVE.  THCKNS CRASH TUE AND WL ADD MNTN OF
SNW SHWRS ACRS MUCH OF WRN/NRN MA AND SRN NH MAINLY FOR HIER ELEVS.
WL BE A LTL MORE PESSIMISTIC FOR WED BY GOING MOCLDY...LL RH
CERTAINLY REMAINS HI AND AVN MAY BE A LTL FAST IN MOVG THIS SYS INTO
CANADIAN MARITIMES.  ALSO MAKING A CHG TO DAYS 6/7 TO INDCT DRY WX
AS SFC HI BLDS IN.

MARINE:  KEEPING SCA UP FOR ALL WATERS BASED UPON BUFKIT SOUNDGS
WHICH SUPPORT STG SCA WNDS TDA...PERHAPS EVEN A BRIEF PD OF GALES
ERLY THIS AFTN BUT PREFER TO HOLD ONTO SCA ATTM SINCE CONFID IS NOT
AS HI.  DEEPER MXG LYR PRESENT SUN...BUT BY THAT TIME WND FIELD HAS
DCRSD.

HYDRO:  FLW REMAINS POSTED FOR LWR CT RVR.  PER NERFC COORD XPCT
HFDC3 AND MDDC3 TO CONT A SLO RISE OR BRIEFLY LEVEL OFF...BEFORE
WATER BEING ROUTED DOWNSTREAM CAUSES ADDTL SLO RISES TNGT AND SUN.
ALSO KEEPING AN EYE ON TMVC3 WHICH IS FCST TO RISE CLOSE TO FS BASED
UPON UPSTREAM RELEASES AND ADDTL CONTRIB FM TRIBS.

.BOX...FLOOD WRNG FOR CT RVR HFDC3-MDDC3 IN CTZ002.
       SCA ALL MARINE ZNS.

JWD

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Eastern Hampshire

When
April 14, 8:20 PM EST to April 16, 7:31 PM EST
Where
Eastern Hampshire forecast zone
Reported by
OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
Coordinates
42.340, -72.664 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Connecticut River

What these are

Flood
Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Massachusetts in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Massachusetts, April 2001

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5237974.