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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Gray, ME

August 11, 2008Grafton County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2008, 10:15 AM EDT for Grafton County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 3 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
Aug 11, 2008, 10:15 AM EDT (14:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 2008, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Grafton County, NH

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:16 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 496 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Aug 11, 8:57 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 8:57 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 8:56 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXFranklin, Oxford109 min
Aug 10, 9:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXFranklin118 min
Aug 11, 5:49 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCarroll116 min
Aug 11, 6:21 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXStrafford84 min
Aug 11, 7:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCarroll109 min
Aug 11, 8:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchGYXBelknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Rockingham and 2 more13 hr
Aug 11, 9:07 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningGYXCarroll, Strafford4 hr
Aug 11, 12:47 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCoos3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Hampshire, 2008Every flash flood warning 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.