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River Flood Warning 58, NWS Gray, ME

August 29, 2011Androscoggin County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Aug 29, 2011, 10:18 AM EDT for Androscoggin County, Maine. It took effect at Aug 29, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 2011, 10:18 AM EDT (14:18 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 29, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 30, 2011, 2:40 PM EDT
In force: 27 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Flood severity: Minor

County Androscoggin County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:20 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 Androscoggin River at Auburn (AUBM1). The gauge peaked at 13.48 ft at Aug 30, 2011, 3:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01059000, 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 Aug 29, 9:11 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 9:11 AM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes 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
Aug 28, 9:29 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	25 hr
Aug 28, 10:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Somerset	31 hr
Aug 28, 10:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	27 hr
Aug 28, 10:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	40 hr
Aug 28, 10:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	7 hr
Aug 28, 11:38 PM EDT	Gale Warning	GYX		10 hr
Aug 29, 12:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	8 hr
Aug 29, 9:15 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		9 hr
Aug 29, 5:51 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	GYX		12 hr
Aug 29, 12:32 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Merrimack	14 hr
Aug 29, 1:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Coos	7 hr
Aug 29, 9:00 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Grafton, Merrimack	10 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Maine, 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.