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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Caribou, ME

July 29, 2009Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2009, 9:08 PM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 4 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: Jul 29, 2009, 9:08 PM EDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2009, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Aroostook County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 29, 5:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 5:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 8:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook	55 min
Jul 30, 1:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook	3 hr
Jul 30, 8:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	87 min
Jul 30, 10:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Maine, 2009 Every flash flood warning in 2009

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.