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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Caribou, ME

July 28, 20066 counties in Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood watch at Jul 28, 2006, 1:14 PM EDT for 6 counties in Maine. It took effect at Jul 28, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2006, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 28, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 29, 2006, 3:23 AM EDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Flood severity: None

Counties Aroostook County, ME, Hancock County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Washington County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 209 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 28, 5:16 AM EDT, 7 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 5:16 AM EDT, 7 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 5:20 AM EDT, 7 hours 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
520 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006

ANZ050-MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-290930-
COASTAL WATERS FROM EASTPORT ME TO STONINGTON ME OUT 25 NM-
NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET-
NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK-
CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT-
INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-COASTAL HANCOCK-
COASTAL WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN WASHINGTON-
520 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN TODAY INTO
THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THRUST OF THE ACTIVITY WILL BE ACROSS THE
CENTRAL AND INTERIOR DOWNEAST AREAS OF MAINE. SOME THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS
COULD REACH 2 INCHES PER HOUR LEADING TO THE THREAT FOR FLASH
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION LATE SATURDAY INTO
SATURDAY NIGHT WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED
WITH IT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY INTO THIS EVENING.
WEATHER SPOTTERS AND AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS ARE URGED TO RELAY
ANY RAINFALL OR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CARIBOU.

HEWITT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 10:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
1026 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MADAWASKA               47.36N 68.32W
07/27/2006                   AROOSTOOK          ME   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES BLOWN DOWN.

&&

STUREY

Local storm report, Jul 28, 10:31 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
1031 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 PM     FLASH FLOOD      SAINT FRANCIS           47.17N 68.89W
07/27/2006                   AROOSTOOK          ME   TRAINED SPOTTER

            DEBRIS FLOW...MUDSLIDE...ONTO PARTS OF ROUTE 161.

&&

STUREY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 8:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAR	Aroostook	107 min
Jul 27, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	57 min
Jul 27, 8:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR		58 min
Jul 27, 9:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	58 min
Jul 27, 10:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR		63 min
Jul 28, 12:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Aroostook	58 min
Jul 28, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot, Waldo, Washington	65 min
Jul 28, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot	39 min
Jul 28, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Hancock	57 min
Jul 28, 2:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CAR	Hancock, Penobscot	4 hr
Jul 28, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Hancock	61 min
Jul 28, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAR	Hancock	46 min
Jul 28, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CAR		66 min
Jul 28, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CAR	Hancock	55 min

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.