Alert archive / Maine / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Apr 1, 1998, 6:37 PM EST for Franklin 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
- Apr 1, 1998, 6:37 PM EST (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1998, 6:30 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 6:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Oxford | 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.