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River Flood Warning 7, NWS Caribou, ME

April 16, 2014Aroostook County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this river flood warning at Apr 16, 2014, 7:14 AM EDT for Aroostook County, Maine. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2014, 7:14 AM EDT (11:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2014, 9:50 PM EDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Flood severity: Minor

County Aroostook County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 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 river

Written for the forecast point Aroostook River at Masardis (MASM1). The gauge peaked at 18.17 ft at Apr 16, 2014, 1:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 15.5 ft
Minor stage: 17 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01015800, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Apr 15, 5:40 PM EDT, 13 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 5:40 PM EDT, 13 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 10:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington	33 hr
Apr 16, 11:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis	6 hr
Apr 16, 12:26 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CAR		7 hr
Apr 16, 7:36 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		14 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Maine, 2014 Every river flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.