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River Flood Warning 1, NWS Caribou, ME
NWS Caribou, ME issued this river flood warning at Jan 14, 2018, 8:49 AM EST for Penobscot County, Maine. It took effect at Jan 14, 2018, 3:29 PM EST. It was in force for 58 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2018, 8:49 AM EST (13:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2018, 3:29 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2018, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 58 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Caribou, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Penobscot County, ME
The radar
The Caribou radar (KCBW), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:50 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 Penobscot River at Eddington (EDDM1).
- Action stage
- 16 ft
- Minor stage
- 18 ft
- Moderate stage
- 21 ft
- Major stage
- 23 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01036390, 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 Jan 13, 3:30 PM EST, 17 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 3:30 PM EST, 17 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Caribou, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 3:12 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | CAR | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.