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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Caribou, ME

June 18, 20175 counties in Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this flash flood watch at Jun 18, 2017, 3:03 AM EDT for 5 counties in Maine. It took effect at Jun 19, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 28 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2017, 3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 19, 2017, 2:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 20, 2017, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 28 hr
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Flood severity: None

Counties Aroostook County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Washington County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 17, 11:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 11:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 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
Jun 17, 10:08 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Washington	7 hr
Jun 18, 3:19 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	CAR		12 hr
Jun 18, 6:07 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CAR	Hancock, Washington	14 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Maine, 2017 Every flash flood watch in 2017

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.