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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Caribou, ME

August 13, 2014Piscataquis County, Somerset County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood watch at Aug 13, 2014, 8:16 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 2014, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2014, 10:07 AM EDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Caribou, ME
Flood severity
None

Counties Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 00:00Z on 2014-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2014-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 369 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
481 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 12:36 PM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasCAR15 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Maine, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014

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.