Alert archive / Maine / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 1998, 12:14 PM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine. It was in force for 12 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
- Oct 10, 1998, 12:14 PM EDT (16:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 1998, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 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 101614 RRA FFWPWM MEC005-015-023-031-110415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1214 PM EDT SAT OCT 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE SAGADAHOC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT * AT 1205 PM EDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS INDICATED LOCAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER THE LAST THREE DAYS WERE IN THE 7 TO 9 INCH RANGE. IN CAMP ELLIS (SACO)...9.13 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE THURSDAY. MANY COMMUNTIES IN SOUTH COASTAL MAINE HAVE RECEIVED OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING. LOW LYING AREA(S AND ROADWAYS CAN EXPECT FLOODING. LOCAL STREAMS WILL RISE TO NEAR BANKFUL. THE MOST RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO FALL NEAR OR ALONG THE COASTLINE. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! CANNON
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, Oct 10, 9:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 958 AM EDT SAT OCT 10 1998 MEZ021-NHZ002-101450- .NOW... PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF MAINE THROUGH NOONTIME. LOOK FOR ANOTHER QUICK INCH OF RAIN TO FALL IN PORTIONS OF COASTAL YORK COUNTY...COASTAL CUMBERLAND... SAGADAHOC AND LINCOLN COUNTIES THROUGH NOONTIME. THIS WILL BRING THREE DAY STORM TOTALS INTO THE 5 TO 7 INCH RAIN...CAUSING MINOR FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. JC
Special weather statement, Oct 10, 9:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 958 AM EDT SAT OCT 10 1998 MEZ021-NHZ002-101450- .NOW... PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF MAINE THROUGH NOONTIME. LOOK FOR ANOTHER QUICK INCH OF RAIN TO FALL IN PORTIONS OF COASTAL YORK COUNTY...COASTAL CUMBERLAND... SAGADAHOC AND LINCOLN COUNTIES THROUGH NOONTIME. THIS WILL BRING THREE DAY STORM TOTALS INTO THE 5 TO 7 INCH RAIN...CAUSING MINOR FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. JC
Special weather statement, Oct 10, 10:08 AM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
MEZ007>030-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1007 AM EST FRI OCT 10 1998 ...HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IN PORTIONS OF MAINE TODAY... TWO DAYS OF RAIN HAVE LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED OVER SOUTHWEST MAINE AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING IS RESULTING IN SOME POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING IN COASTAL AND URBAN CENTERS OF SOUTHWEST MAINE. THE PROBLEM IS BEING AGGRAVATED BY FALLEN LEAVES BLOCKING DRAINS IN SOME LOCATIONS. SEVERAL STREETS IN THE PORTLAND AREA HAVE BEEN CLOSED OFF DUE TO HIGH WATER. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACCUMULATED SINCE RAIN BEGAN EARLY ON THURSDAY ARE GENERALLY IN THE 3 TO 6 INCH RANGE ACROSS THE REGION...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN COASTAL LOCATIONS. AT 1000 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAIN FINALLY PUSHING NORTH OF THE PORTLAND AREA INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND CENTRAL HIGHLANDS...BUT LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN COASTAL AREAS AND WILL BE OCCASIONALLY HEAVY THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. RAIN WILL BECOME HEAVY IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MAINE BY EARLY AFTERNOON. EJS/NWS GRAY ME
Special weather statement, Oct 10, 10:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
MEZ007>030-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1007 AM EST SAT OCT 10 1998 ...HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IN PORTIONS OF MAINE TODAY... TWO DAYS OF RAIN HAVE LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED OVER SOUTHWEST MAINE AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING IS RESULTING IN SOME POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING IN COASTAL AND URBAN CENTERS OF SOUTHWEST MAINE. THE PROBLEM IS BEING AGGRAVATED BY FALLEN LEAVES BLOCKING DRAINS IN SOME LOCATIONS. SEVERAL STREETS IN THE PORTLAND AREA HAVE BEEN CLOSED OFF DUE TO HIGH WATER. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACCUMULATED SINCE RAIN BEGAN EARLY ON THURSDAY ARE GENERALLY IN THE 3 TO 6 INCH RANGE ACROSS THE REGION...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN COASTAL LOCATIONS. AT 1000 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAIN FINALLY PUSHING NORTH OF THE PORTLAND AREA INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND CENTRAL HIGHLANDS...BUT LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN COASTAL AREAS AND WILL BE OCCASIONALLY HEAVY THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. RAIN WILL BECOME HEAVY IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MAINE BY EARLY AFTERNOON. EJS/NWS GRAY ME
Special weather statement, Oct 10, 11:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
MEZ007>030-102000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1007 AM EST FRI OCT 10 1998 ...HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IN PORTIONS OF MAINE TODAY... TWO DAYS OF RAIN HAVE LEFT THE GROUND SATURATED OVER SOUTHWEST MAINE AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING IS RESULTING IN SOME POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING IN COASTAL AND URBAN CENTERS OF SOUTHWEST MAINE. THE PROBLEM IS BEING AGGRAVATED BY FALLEN LEAVES BLOCKING DRAINS IN SOME LOCATIONS. SEVERAL STREETS IN THE PORTLAND AREA HAVE BEEN CLOSED OFF DUE TO HIGH WATER. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACCUMULATED SINCE RAIN BEGAN EARLY ON THURSDAY ARE GENERALLY IN THE 3 TO 6 INCH RANGE ACROSS THE REGION...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS IN COASTAL LOCATIONS. AT 1000 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAIN FINALLY PUSHING NORTH OF THE PORTLAND AREA INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND CENTRAL HIGHLANDS...BUT LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN COASTAL AREAS AND WILL BE OCCASIONALLY HEAVY THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. RAIN WILL BECOME HEAVY IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MAINE BY EARLY AFTERNOON. EJS/NWS GRAY ME
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 10, 12:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Lincoln, Sagadahoc | 12 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.