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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 7:53 AM EDT for Cumberland County, Oxford County, York County, Maine. 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, 7:53 AM EDT (11:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 1:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cumberland County, ME, Oxford County, ME, York County, ME
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 26 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 271156 FFWPWM MEC005-017-031-271740- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 753 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE OXFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN MAINE YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE * UNTIL 140 PM EDT * AT 745 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME WESTERN YORK AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE EAST. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES...WEATHER SPOTTERS AND THE RED CROSS REPORTED WASHED OUT ROADS AND RAPID RISES ON SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS FROM THESE STORMS WHEN THE PASSED THROUGH VERMONT AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. IN OXFORD COUNTY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE...ALLOWING ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN TO FALL BON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. TAKE PRECAUTION! DO NOT DRIVE OVER ROADS FLOODED BY WATER. 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 53 minutes 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 53 minutes 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 | Franklin | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 8 hr |
Nearby
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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.