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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME

April 16, 1997Piscataquis County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 1997, 12:51 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 3 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
Apr 16, 1997, 12:51 PM EDT (16:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 1997, 3:55 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Piscataquis County, ME

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 1997-04-16Temperature 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, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 1997-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Maine, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.