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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Gray, ME

October 21, 1996Oxford County, Maine; Coos County, New Hampshire

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1996-10-21Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1996-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 456 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 20, 11:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXYork5 hr
Oct 21, 3:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCumberland, York8 hr
Oct 21, 11:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCumberland, York9 hr
Oct 21, 3:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, York12 hr
Oct 20, 11:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Strafford5 hr
Oct 21, 3:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Strafford8 hr
Oct 21, 3:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXRockingham8 hr
Oct 21, 6:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXGrafton5 hr
Oct 21, 11:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Grafton, Merrimack9 hr
Oct 21, 11:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXRockingham9 hr
Oct 21, 3:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford8 hr
Oct 21, 3:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXGrafton8 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.