Alert archive / Maine / Flash Flood Watches in 2008
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood watch at Jun 29, 2008, 1:26 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Piscataquis County, Somerset County, Maine. It took effect at Jun 29, 2008, 2:05 PM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2008, 1:26 PM EDT (17:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 29, 2008, 2:05 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2008, 11:26 AM EDT
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Aroostook County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Maine, 2008Every flash flood watch in 2008
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.