Alert archive / Maine / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 8:45 AM EDT for 5 counties in 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
- Jun 14, 1998, 8:45 AM EDT (12:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:44 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 441 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 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 141245 FFWPWM MEC001-007-011-015-017-023-141600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 845 AM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MAINE KENNEBEC COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MAINE LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE SOUTHERN OXFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN MAINE SAGADAHOC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE * UNTIL 1200 PM EDT * RAINFALL REPORTS OVER 5 INCHES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OVER SOUTHWEST MAINE FOR THIS STORM. A SPOTTER IN AUBURN REPORTIING A TOTAL OF 6.65 INCHES AND DURHAM REPORTED 6.20 INCHES OF RAIN. * AT 8 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED MORE HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHWEST MAINE... MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHWEST. * FLOODING OF SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS IS VERY LIKELY WITH THIS RAINFALL. * PEOPLE LIVING NEAR SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS SHOULD BMONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ANY ROADS COVERED BY RUNNING WATER. SJC/NWS GRAY ME
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 13 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Sagadahoc | 10 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | York | 10 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 10 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Sagadahoc | 10 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | York | 10 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Lincoln | 10 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Maine, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.