Alert archive / Maine / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood watch at Jul 1, 2013, 3:50 AM EDT for 11 counties in Maine; 8 counties in New Hampshire. It took effect at Jul 1, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2013, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 1, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2013, 3:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 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 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 886 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jul 1, 3:05 AM EDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:05 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 3:07 AM EDT, 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 307 AM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 MEZ007>009-012>014-018>028-NHZ001>010-013-014-020715- 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- 307 AM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY 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...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD RELAY REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN AND/OR FLOODING THROUGH STANDARD PROCEDURES WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. ANZ150>154-020715- 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- 307 AM EDT MON JUL 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Somerset | 4 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, York | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | Cumberland, York | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GYX | York | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 116 min |
| Jul 1, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 88 min | |
| Jul 1, 5:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Kennebec, Waldo | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Rockingham, Strafford | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 33 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Maine, 2013Flash Flood Watches in New Hampshire, 2013Every flash flood watch 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.