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Flood Watch 7, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this flood watch at Dec 8, 2014, 3:31 PM EST for Hancock County, Washington County, Maine. It took effect at Dec 10, 2014, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 8, 2014, 3:31 PM EST (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 10, 2014, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2014, 8:51 PM EST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hancock County, ME, Washington County, ME
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Dec 8, 9:54 AM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 9:54 AM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 7:46 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | CAR | 6 hr | |
| Dec 8, 3:33 PM EST | Gale Warning | CAR | 39 hr | |
| Dec 8, 4:05 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | CAR | Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset | 61 hr |
| Dec 8, 4:05 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CAR | Hancock, Penobscot, Washington | 36 hr |
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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.