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River Flood Warning 13, NWS Gray, ME

April 20, 2019Oxford County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Apr 20, 2019, 8:37 AM EDT for Oxford County, Maine. It took effect at Apr 20, 2019, 9:30 AM EDT. It was in force for 37 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 2019, 8:37 AM EDT (12:37 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 20, 2019, 9:30 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 21, 2019, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 37 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Oxford County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:41 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 Swift River at Roxbury (ROXM1).

Action stage: 5 ft
Minor stage: 8 ft
Moderate stage: 9.5 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01055000, 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 20, 6:16 AM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 6:16 AM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 9:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Somerset	21 days
Apr 20, 9:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	58 hr
Apr 20, 9:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	21 days
Apr 20, 11:58 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	47 hr
Apr 20, 11:58 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Androscoggin	3 days
Apr 20, 3:21 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	GYX		36 hr
Apr 20, 4:55 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	9 hr
Apr 20, 6:09 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	33 hr
Apr 20, 6:09 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	17 hr
Apr 20, 8:37 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Carroll	45 hr
Apr 20, 11:58 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	42 hr
Apr 20, 11:58 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Coos	5 days
Apr 20, 12:30 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Coos	35 hr
Apr 20, 12:30 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Coos	21 days
Apr 20, 12:30 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	21 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Maine, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.