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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2013, 4:06 PM EDT for Coos County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2013, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Coos County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 301 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Jul 3, 3:37 PM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:37 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 3:28 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 328 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013 MEZ007>009-012>014-NHZ001>009-041930- NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD- SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS- NORTHERN GRAFTON-NORTHERN CARROLL-SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL- SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP- 328 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE AND NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MEZ018>028-NHZ010-013-014-041930- INTERIOR YORK-INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC- INTERIOR WALDO-COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN- KNOX-COASTAL WALDO-STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM- 328 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND STORMS COULD CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ150>154-041930- STONINGTON ME TO PORT CLYDE ME OUT TO 25 NM-PENOBSCOT BAY- PORT CLYDE ME TO CAPE ELIZABETH ME OUT TO 25 NM-CASCO BAY- CAPE ELIZABETH ME TO MERRIMACK RIVER MA OUT TO 25 NM- 328 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CASCO BAY...PENOBSCOT BAY...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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 3, 12:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 3, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 230 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013 MEZ007>009-012-NHZ001>004-032200- NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET- SOUTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON- NORTHERN CARROLL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANDOVER...ROXBURY...UPTON... WILSONS MILLS...COBURN GORE...RANGELEY...KINGFIELD...BINGHAM... JACKMAN...RUMFORD...NORWAY...FRYEBURG...OXFORD...COLEBROOK... BERLIN...LANCASTER...LITTLETON...NORTH CONWAY 230 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WESTERN THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING AN INCH OF RAIN IN AN HOUR OR LESS. GIVEN THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND...HIKERS AND CAMPERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR FAST MOVING AND RAPIDLY RISING CREEKS AND STREAMS. DRIVERS SHOULD ALSO LOOK FOR POTENTIAL FLOODING OF ROADS. REMEMBER...WHETHER WALKING OR DRIVING...YOU SHOULD NOT CROSS FLOODED AREAS...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. CEMPA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 10 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Oxford | 109 min |
| Jul 3, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 5:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Somerset | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Oxford | 113 min |
| Jul 3, 6:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Kennebec, Oxford | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 7:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Androscoggin, Kennebec, Oxford, Sagadahoc | 87 min |
| Jul 2, 9:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Merrimack, Sullivan | 114 min |
| Jul 2, 11:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Merrimack, Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Coos, Grafton | 82 min |
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.