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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Gray, ME

May 27, 2011Franklin County, Somerset County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2011, 1:24 AM EDT for Franklin County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2011, 1:24 AM EDT (05:24 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2011, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Franklin County, ME, Somerset County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

450 
WGUS51 KGYX 270524
FFWGYX
MEC007-025-270815-
/O.NEW.KGYX.FF.W.0002.110527T0524Z-110527T0815Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
124 AM EDT FRI MAY 27 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY MAINE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SOMERSET COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MAINE...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WESTERN MAINE...

* UNTIL 415 AM EDT

* AT 120 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  FLASH FLOODING FROM CONTINUED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER       
  SOMERSET AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS 
  FALLEN AND ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT 3 HOURS.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO STRATTON...
  SEBOOMOOK...ROCKWOOD...JACKMAN...EUSTIS...RANGELEY...LAKE MOXIE...
  AND COBURN GORE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE
YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME
KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR
CREEKS.

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 4586 6965 4586 6970 4576 6971 4571 6979
      4565 6969 4552 6977 4510 6964 4468 7054
      4480 7062 4475 7074 4501 7082 4542 7083
      4539 7065 4551 7074 4568 7056 4574 7040
      4580 7043 4588 7029 4596 7027 4599 6969

$$

HANES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Oxford	39 min
May 26, 9:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Oxford	3 hr
May 26, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	44 min
May 26, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Franklin, Oxford	37 min
May 26, 11:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	6 hr
May 27, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Franklin	36 min
May 27, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	46 min
May 27, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Somerset	27 min
May 27, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	41 min
May 27, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	50 min
May 27, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Somerset	33 min
May 27, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Franklin	31 min
May 27, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Franklin	26 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Maine, 2011 Every flash flood warning in 2011

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.