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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Gray, ME

June 26, 2013Franklin County, Maine

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2013-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2013-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 12:21 AM EDTCoastal Flood StatementGYXCumberland, York4 hr
Jun 26, 11:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchGYXFranklin, Oxford, Somerset8 hr
Jun 26, 1:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXFranklin, Somerset6 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.