Alert archive / Maine / River Flood Warnings in 2008
River Flood Warning 10, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Apr 29, 2008, 3:07 AM EDT for Oxford County, Maine. It took effect at Apr 29, 2008, 6:22 AM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2008, 3:07 AM EDT (07:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2008, 6:22 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2008, 11:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Oxford County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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 river
Written for the forecast point Swift River at Roxbury (ROXM1). The gauge peaked at 7.53 ft at Apr 29, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT.
- Action stage
- 5 ft
- Minor stage
- 8 ft
- Moderate stage
- 9.5 ft
- Major stage
- 12 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01055000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Apr 28, 9:28 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 9:28 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 29, 1:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 43 days |
| Apr 29, 3:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Somerset, York | 51 days |
| Apr 29, 7:51 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford, Sagadahoc, York | 55 days |
| Apr 29, 10:34 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more | 59 days |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 11 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Oxford | 17 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin | 43 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Somerset | 52 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 48 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 57 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 17 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:42 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | GYX | 4 hr | |
| Apr 29, 4:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Waldo | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:50 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 9 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:50 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 29 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:11 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Carroll | 27 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Coos | 24 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton, Sullivan | 11 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 17 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.