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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Oct 21, 1996, 3:33 PM EDT for Oxford County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 21, 1996, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 1996, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Oxford County, ME, Coos County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 590 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPWM 211936 FFWPWM MEC001-005-017-023-031-NHC007-220730- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 333 PM EDT MON OCT 21 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN MAINE ...ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY...CUMBERLAND COUNTY...OXFORD COUNTY ...SAGADAHOC COUNTY...YORK COUNTY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ...COOS COUNTY MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL IN THE WARNING AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN PORTIONS OF YORK COUNTY ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST ARE NEAR 13 INCHES. RAIN WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF IN YORK COUNTY EARLY THIS EVENING BUT CONTINUE TO THE NORTH THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE THROUGH THE EVENING IN YORK COUNTY AND INTO TUESDAY MORNING TO THE NORTH. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY 11 PM. HAWLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 11:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | York | 5 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 8 hr |
| Oct 21, 11:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 9 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, York | 12 hr |
| Oct 20, 11:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Strafford | 5 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Strafford | 8 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 8 hr |
| Oct 21, 6:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 5 hr |
| Oct 21, 11:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Grafton, Merrimack | 9 hr |
| Oct 21, 11:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Rockingham | 9 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford | 8 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 8 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Maine, 1996Flash Flood Warnings in New Hampshire, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.