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River Flood Warning 33, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Nov 26, 2008, 9:10 AM EST for Kennebec County, Maine. It took effect at Nov 26, 2008, 1:55 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2008, 9:10 AM EST (14:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 26, 2008, 1:55 PM EST
- Expired
- Nov 27, 2008, 2:08 PM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Kennebec County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Kennebec River at North Sidney (SIDM1). The gauge peaked at 17.91 ft at Nov 26, 2008, 11:00 PM EST.
- Action stage
- 17 ft
- Minor stage
- 20 ft
- Moderate stage
- 25 ft
- Major stage
- 29 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01049265, 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 Nov 26, 6:46 AM EST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 6:46 AM EST, 2 hours 24 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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| Nov 25, 9:14 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GYX | Oxford | 10 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:43 PM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 2 hr |
| Nov 25, 11:15 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 25, 11:26 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 15 hr | |
| Nov 26, 3:41 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York | 8 hr |
| Nov 26, 7:37 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin | 3 hr |
| Nov 26, 9:10 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GYX | Somerset | 29 hr |
| Nov 26, 9:10 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 34 hr |
| Nov 26, 2:21 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | GYX | 37 hr | |
| Nov 26, 6:45 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin | 16 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.