Alert archive / Maine / Flash Flood Warnings in 2013
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2013, 11:18 AM EDT for Franklin County, Maine. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2013, 11:18 AM EDT (15:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2013, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Franklin County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Jun 26, 6:09 AM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 6:09 AM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 3:46 AM EDT, 7 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 346 AM EDT WED JUN 26 2013 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-270800- 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- 346 AM EDT WED JUN 26 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT SLOWLY PASSING ACROSS THE REGION TODAY WILL LIKELY BE THE FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY AS EARLY AS LATE MORNING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. ANY THUNDERSTORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THE HIGHEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER LOOKS TO BE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH A WARM FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. ANZ150>154-270800- 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- 346 AM EDT WED JUN 26 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE WATERS TODAY...ESPECIALLY THE SOUTHERN MAINE WATERS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:21 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | GYX | Cumberland, York | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Maine, 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.