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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Gray, ME

July 13, 20205 counties in Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2020, 4:42 PM EDT for 5 counties in Maine. It was in force for 110 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 2020, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2020, 6:32 PM EDT
In force: 110 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Androscoggin County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Somerset County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 13, 4:03 PM EDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 4:03 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 3:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 13, 3:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:57 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:58 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:38 PM EDT, 4 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
Jul 13, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	York	23 min
Jul 13, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Somerset	49 min
Jul 13, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	York	47 min
Jul 13, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland, York	58 min
Jul 13, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland	21 min
Jul 13, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		54 min
Jul 13, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	York	52 min
Jul 13, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	York	35 min
Jul 13, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		91 min
Jul 13, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	41 min
Jul 13, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	49 min
Jul 13, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	48 min
Jul 13, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Kennebec	47 min
Jul 13, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Oxford	38 min
Jul 13, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Oxford	37 min
Jul 13, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Kennebec	27 min
Jul 13, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Kennebec	28 min
Jul 13, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford, York	51 min
Jul 13, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Merrimack	41 min
Jul 13, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Hillsborough, Merrimack	30 min
Jul 13, 12:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Hillsborough, Merrimack	110 min
Jul 13, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Strafford	44 min
Jul 13, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Rockingham	57 min
Jul 13, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Rockingham	46 min
Jul 13, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Coos	57 min
Jul 13, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Hillsborough	28 min
Jul 13, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Grafton	23 min
Jul 13, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Carroll	26 min
Jul 13, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Grafton	25 min
Jul 13, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Carroll	36 min
Jul 13, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Carroll	53 min
Jul 13, 7:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Carroll, Grafton	3 hr
Jul 13, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Carroll	43 min
Jul 13, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Carroll	47 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.