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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood watch at Oct 16, 2014, 1:15 PM EDT for Penobscot County, Piscataquis County, Maine. It took effect at Oct 17, 2014, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 16, 2014, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 17, 2014, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2014, 10:32 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 4:32 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 4 days |
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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.