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River Flood Warning 14, NWS Gray, ME

April 17, 2011Merrimack County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Apr 17, 2011, 6:07 AM EDT for Merrimack County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Apr 17, 2011, 1:08 PM EDT. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2011, 6:07 AM EDT (10:07 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 17, 2011, 1:08 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 18, 2011, 5:46 PM EDT
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Flood severity: Minor

County Merrimack County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 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 Suncook River at North Chichester (NCHN3).

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 16 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01089500, 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 Apr 17, 4:06 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 4:06 AM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute 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
Apr 17, 6:39 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland, York	6 hr
Apr 17, 6:39 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	GYX	Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo	6 hr
Apr 17, 8:14 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland	20 hr
Apr 17, 9:32 AM EDT	Gale Warning	GYX		3 hr
Apr 17, 12:15 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		33 hr
Apr 17, 3:57 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	9 hr
Apr 17, 4:24 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Somerset	22 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in New Hampshire, 2011 Every river 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.