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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Gray, ME

November 26, 2008Androscoggin County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Nov 26, 2008, 6:45 PM EST for Androscoggin County, Maine. It took effect at Nov 26, 2008, 9:20 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 26, 2008, 6:45 PM EST (23:45 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 26, 2008, 9:20 PM EST
Expired: Nov 27, 2008, 10:53 AM EST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Flood severity: Minor

County Androscoggin County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 Androscoggin River at Auburn (AUBM1). The gauge peaked at 13.27 ft at Nov 27, 2008, 4:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01059000, 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, 3:13 PM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 3:13 PM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 26, 4:58 PM EST, 1 hour 47 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
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	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

Nearby

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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.