Alert archive / New Hampshire / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 1990, 9:38 PM EDT for Belknap County, Carroll County, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1990, 9:38 PM EDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1990, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Merrimack County, NH
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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 12:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Hillsborough | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 11:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 11:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Grafton | 4 hr |
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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.