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Flood Watch 2, NWS Gray, ME

April 14, 200711 counties in Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this flood watch at Apr 14, 2007, 3:22 PM EDT for 11 counties in Maine; 7 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Apr 15, 2007, 10:57 PM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2007, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 15, 2007, 10:57 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 16, 2007, 11:53 AM EDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Flood severity: None

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 300 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Apr 14, 9:28 AM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 9:28 AM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 5:06 AM EDT	Winter Storm Watch	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more	11 hr
Apr 14, 5:13 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Watch	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	11 hr
Apr 14, 3:44 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	3 days
Apr 14, 4:06 PM EDT	Winter Storm Warning	GYX	Franklin, Oxford, Somerset	37 hr
Apr 14, 4:06 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more	30 hr
Apr 14, 4:11 PM EDT	High Wind Watch	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 2 more	13 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Maine, 2007 Flood Watches in New Hampshire, 2007 Every flood watch in 2007

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.