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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Gray, ME

October 13, 1990York County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 1990, 10:31 PM EDT for York County, Maine. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 13, 1990, 10:31 PM EDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 1990, 2:30 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County York County, ME

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 61 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 1990-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 1990-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 11:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXRockingham4 hr
Oct 13, 8:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCumberland6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Maine, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990

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.