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River Flood Warning 4, NWS Caribou, ME

December 14, 2010Penobscot County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this river flood warning at Dec 14, 2010, 1:00 PM EST for Penobscot County, Maine. It took effect at Dec 14, 2010, 4:20 PM EST. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 14, 2010, 1:00 PM EST (18:00 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 14, 2010, 4:20 PM EST
Expired: Dec 15, 2010, 3:32 PM EST
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Flood severity: Minor

County Penobscot County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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 Penobscot River at West Enfield (WENM1). The gauge peaked at 18.48 ft at Dec 15, 2010, 5:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 15.5 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 20 ft
Major stage: 24 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01034500, 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 Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Dec 13, 4:09 PM EST, 20 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 4:09 PM EST, 20 hours 51 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
Dec 13, 9:42 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CAR	Washington	18 hr
Dec 14, 12:45 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CAR	Aroostook, Penobscot	6 hr
Dec 14, 1:46 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CAR	Piscataquis	9 hr
Dec 14, 3:55 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	CAR	Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington	31 hr
Dec 14, 5:00 AM EST	River Flood Warning	CAR	Penobscot	5 days
Dec 14, 3:46 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CAR	Washington	12 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.