Alert archive / Maine / Flash Flood Warnings in 2010
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2010, 10:33 AM EDT for Oxford County, Maine. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 30, 2010, 10:33 AM EDT (14:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2010, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Oxford County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 30, 10:21 AM EDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 10:21 AM EDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 2:47 AM EDT, 7 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 247 AM EDT TUE MAR 30 2010 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>022-NHZ001>010-013-310700- NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD- SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-INTERIOR YORK- INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC-INTERIOR WALDO- NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-NORTHERN CARROLL- SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM- 247 AM EDT TUE MAR 30 2010 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL OR RADIO IN SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. ANZ150-152-154-310700- STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME OUT TO 25 NM- PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME OUT TO 25 NM- CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT TO 25 NM- 247 AM EDT TUE MAR 30 2010 ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA...THE COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME AND THE COASTAL WATERS FROM STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. GALE WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL OR RADIO IN SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MEZ023>028-NHZ014-310700- COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO- COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- 247 AM EDT TUE MAR 30 2010 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL OR RADIO IN SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. ANZ151-153-310700- PENOBSCOT BAY-CASCO BAY- 247 AM EDT TUE MAR 30 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CASCO BAY AND PENOBSCOT BAY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL OR RADIO IN SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 9:59 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Knox, Waldo | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:12 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Somerset | 67 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:17 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 50 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:32 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 11 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | York | 12 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Knox, Waldo | 12 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | York | 18 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:09 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 12 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Oxford | 12 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 14 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 56 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, Oxford | 12 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:47 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 4 days |
| Mar 30, 2:12 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Rockingham, Strafford | 4 days |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Carroll | 30 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Grafton | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 54 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 33 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GYX | Merrimack | 14 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.