Alert archive / New Hampshire / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 9:31 AM EDT for Coos County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 5 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, 9:31 AM EDT (13:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 2:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coos County, NH
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPWM 271334 FFWPWM MEC007-NHC007-271825- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 931 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MAINE COOS COUNTY IN NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE * UNTIL 225 PM EDT * AT 930 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN NEAR OVER COOS COUNTY NEW HAMPSHIRE AND FRANKLIN COUNTY IN MAINE. THESE BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY THROUGH NOONTIME... BRINGING SIX HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS IN THIS AREA INTO THE 2-3 INCH RANGE. THIS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL RIVERS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE VEHICLES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JC/NWSFO GYX
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, 3 hours 31 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, 3 hours 31 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, 7:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Belknap, Carroll, Grafton | 6 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.