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River Flood Warning 15, NWS Gray, ME

April 15, 2014Somerset County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Apr 15, 2014, 12:45 AM EDT for Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 2014, 12:45 AM EDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 2014, 6:17 PM EDT
In force
42 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
Minor

County Somerset County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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 Carrabassett River at North Anson (NANM1). The gauge peaked at 15.83 ft at Apr 15, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT.

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Action stage
13 ft
Minor stage
15 ft
Moderate stage
18 ft
Major stage
22 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01047000, 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 Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 14, 10:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 10:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 9:09 AM EDTWind AdvisoryGYXCumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York10 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXOxford39 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXAndroscoggin69 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXOxford26 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXSomerset66 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXKennebec61 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXKennebec67 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXFranklin, Somerset34 hr
Apr 15, 7:43 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGYXFranklin, Oxford18 hr
Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXGrafton24 hr
Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXGrafton34 hr
Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXCarroll40 hr
Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXMerrimack16 hr
Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXMerrimack33 hr
Apr 15, 12:48 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXGrafton16 hr
Apr 15, 1:30 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXCoos49 hr
Apr 15, 4:45 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGYXCoos23 hr
Apr 15, 7:23 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton14 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Maine, 2014Every 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.