Alert archive / New Hampshire / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Oct 22, 1995, 1:16 AM EDT for Grafton County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 1995, 1:16 AM EDT (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 1995, 7:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grafton County, NH
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPWM 220516 FFWPWM NHC009-221115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 116 AM EDT SUN OCT 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ...GRAFTON COUNTY AT 1 AM THE PEMIGEWASSET RIVER AT WOODSTOCK IN GRAFTON COUNTY NEW HAMPSHIRE WAS READING 12.79 FT. FLOOD STAGE IS 9.0 FT. GRAFTON COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT ROAD CLOSURES AND EVACUATIONS IN THE WOODSTOCK AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. &
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
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 10:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
MEZ007>030-NHZ001>010-013-014-220800 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1000 PM EDT SAT OCT 21 1995 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE... SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE BEING REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE AREA. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWER OUTAGES THROUGHOUT MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. HEAVY WIND-DRIVEN RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE...AND WILL MOVE TO EASTERN MAINE AFTER MIDNIGHT. STORM DRAINS CLOGGED WITH LEAVES ARE CAUSING SOME STREET FLOODING. TIDES ARE RUNNING ABOUT A FOOT ABOVE NORMAL...BUT THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT AND NOT EXPECTED TO CAUSE ANY BEACH EROSION. A COLD FRONT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WILL BE PUSHING INTO NEW BRUNSWICK CANADA EARLY SUNDAY. WINDS WILL DIMINISH...THE RAIN WILL TAPER OFF AND SKIES WILL CLEAR SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT IN SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. THIS TREND WILL SPREAD TO NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND CENTRAL MAINE OVERNIGHT...FINALLY REACHING EASTERN MAINE AROUND SUNRISE. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY 3 AM. BERMAN
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 10:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
MEZ007>030-NHZ001>010-013-014-220800 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1000 PM EDT SAT OCT 21 1995 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE... SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 25 AND 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE BEING REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE AREA. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWER OUTAGES THROUGHOUT MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. HEAVY WIND-DRIVEN RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN MAINE...AND WILL MOVE TO EASTERN MAINE AFTER MIDNIGHT. STORM DRAINS CLOGGED WITH LEAVES ARE CAUSING SOME STREET FLOODING. TIDES ARE RUNNING ABOUT A FOOT ABOVE NORMAL...BUT THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT AND NOT EXPECTED TO CAUSE ANY BEACH EROSION. A COLD FRONT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WILL BE PUSHING INTO NEW BRUNSWICK CANADA EARLY SUNDAY. WINDS WILL DIMINISH...THE RAIN WILL TAPER OFF AND SKIES WILL CLEAR SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT IN SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. THIS TREND WILL SPREAD TO NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND CENTRAL MAINE OVERNIGHT...FINALLY REACHING EASTERN MAINE AROUND SUNRISE. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY 3 AM. BERMAN
Nearby
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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.