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River Flood Warning 25, NWS Gray, ME

August 8, 2008Somerset County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Aug 8, 2008, 9:41 AM EDT for Somerset County, Maine. It took effect at Aug 8, 2008, 12:23 PM EDT. It was in force for 40 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 2008, 9:41 AM EDT (13:41 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 8, 2008, 12:23 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 10, 2008, 4:45 AM EDT
In force: 40 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Flood severity: Minor

County Somerset County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Kennebec River at Skowhegan (SKOM1).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 25 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Aug 8, 3:41 AM EDT, 6 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:41 AM EDT, 6 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 8, 9:01 AM EDT, 40 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
Aug 7, 10:17 PM EDT	Flood Watch	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 4 more	23 hr
Aug 7, 10:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford and 3 more	23 hr
Aug 8, 4:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	York	4 hr
Aug 8, 4:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Sagadahoc	4 hr
Aug 8, 8:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Sagadahoc	3 hr
Aug 8, 8:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	York	3 hr
Aug 8, 4:14 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland	8 hr
Aug 8, 7:11 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		48 min
Aug 7, 8:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Carroll, Grafton	3 hr
Aug 8, 3:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford	3 hr
Aug 8, 4:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton, Sullivan	3 hr
Aug 8, 5:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Grafton	117 min
Aug 8, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Rockingham	45 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Maine, 2008 Every river 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.