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Areal Flood Warning 21, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this areal flood warning at Sep 6, 2008, 9:11 PM EDT for 7 counties in Maine. It was in force for 14 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
- Sep 6, 2008, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2008, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Sep 6, 4:11 PM EDT, 5 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 4:11 PM EDT, 5 hours before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and 1 more | 113 min |
| Sep 7, 1:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 19 hr |
| Sep 7, 9:22 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 20 hr | |
| Sep 6, 8:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Grafton, Sullivan | 111 min |
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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.