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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Gray, ME

September 1, 2013Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Sep 1, 2013, 7:03 PM EDT for Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 57 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
Sep 1, 2013, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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

Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 574 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Chatham, MA at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
574 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Sep 1, 3:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 3:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 1, 3:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
304 PM EDT SUN SEP 1 2013

MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-021915-
NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD-
SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN SOMERSET-INTERIOR YORK-
INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-KENNEBEC-INTERIOR WALDO-
COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-SAGADAHOC-LINCOLN-KNOX-COASTAL WALDO-
NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-NORTHERN CARROLL-
SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP-
STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM-
304 PM EDT SUN SEP 1 2013

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING THROUGH
LATE MONDAY NIGHT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW
HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN 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.

A FRONT WILL REMAIN NEARLY STALLED ACROSS NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND THIS
WEEKEND. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. A FEW STORMS MAY
BE STRONG. IN ADDITION...ANY SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE
HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   FLASH FLOOD WATCH.

MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY INTO TUESDAY.
THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG AS WELL...AND COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED
HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL OR RADIO IN SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

ANZ150>154-021915-
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-
304 PM EDT SUN SEP 1 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.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WATERS TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WATERS MONDAY AND
TUESDAY.

.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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 10:34 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCumberland, Oxford, York3 hr
Sep 1, 12:36 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXKennebec, Waldo3 hr
Sep 1, 12:43 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXWaldo3 hr
Sep 1, 3:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more35 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Hampshire, 2013Every flash flood warning in 2013

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.