Alert archive / New Hampshire / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 7:01 AM EDT for Belknap County, Carroll County, Grafton County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 6 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 27, 1998, 7:01 AM EDT (11:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 12:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Grafton County, NH
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 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 271104 FFWPWM NHC001-003-009-271655- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 701 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... BELKNAP COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE CARROLL COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE GRAFTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE * UNTIL 1255 PM EDT * AT 650 AM EDT...SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL GRAFTON COUNTY...BELKNAP COUNTY AND WESTERN CARROL COUNTY. THIS BAND WILL DEPOSIT RAIN AT UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR. ROADS HAVE ALREADY BEEN WASHED OUT FROM THESE STORMS. * FLOODING OF SMALL RIVER AND STREAMS WILL OCCUR. TAKE PRECAUTION IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA. JC
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, Jun 27, 6:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
BULLETIN- IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SPECIAL SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 600 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 NHZ002-003-005-009-271400- .NOW... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST ACROSS CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE. A FEW COMMUNITIES IN A LINE FROM ORFORD IN GRAFTON COUNTY TO GILFORD IN BELKNAP COUNTY WILL PICK UP A QUICK INCH TO AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN THROUGH 9 AM...CAUSING SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS TO RISE. A SECOND AREA OF SHOWERS OVER CENTRAL COOS COUNTY WILL DEPOSIT ABOUT A HALF INCH OF RAIN THROUGH 9 AM. A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TODAY. PEOPLE ALONG THE PEMIGEWASSET RIVER SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS AND BE| PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODWATERS THREATEN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JC
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
BULLETIN- IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SPECIAL SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 600 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 NHZ002-003-005-009-271400- .NOW... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST ACROSS CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE. A FEW COMMUNITIES IN A LINE FROM ORFORD IN GRAFTON COUNTY TO GILFORD IN BELKNAP COUNTY WILL PICK UP A QUICK INCH TO AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN THROUGH 9 AM...CAUSING SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS TO RISE. A SECOND AREA OF SHOWERS OVER CENTRAL COOS COUNTY WILL DEPOSIT ABOUT A HALF INCH OF RAIN THROUGH 9 AM. A FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES TODAY. PEOPLE ALONG THE PEMIGEWASSET RIVER SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS AND BE| PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODWATERS THREATEN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Coos | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton | 8 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Hampshire, 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.