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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Gray, ME

December 25, 2020Oxford County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Dec 25, 2020, 3:46 PM EST for Oxford County, Maine. It took effect at Dec 25, 2020, 6:14 PM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2020, 3:46 PM EST (20:46 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 25, 2020, 6:14 PM EST
Expired: Dec 26, 2020, 10:16 AM EST
In force: 16 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 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Androscoggin River at Rumford (RMFM1). The gauge peaked at 15.07 ft at Dec 26, 2020, 8:00 AM EST.

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 13.5 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 19 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01054500, 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 Dec 25, 9:54 AM EST, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 9:54 AM EST, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 25, 3:19 PM EST, 27 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
Dec 24, 9:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	35 hr
Dec 24, 9:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Somerset	71 hr
Dec 25, 6:15 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	6 hr
Dec 25, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Somerset	24 hr
Dec 25, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Franklin, Somerset	32 hr
Dec 25, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	43 hr
Dec 25, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	55 hr
Dec 25, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	46 hr
Dec 25, 12:46 PM EST	Gale Warning	GYX		3 hr
Dec 25, 3:21 PM EST	Gale Warning	GYX		18 hr
Dec 25, 3:21 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	GYX		45 hr
Dec 25, 3:39 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland	15 hr
Dec 24, 9:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Carroll	50 hr
Dec 24, 9:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	38 hr
Dec 24, 9:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	41 hr
Dec 24, 9:33 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Merrimack	3 days
Dec 25, 6:42 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	11 hr
Dec 25, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	4 hr
Dec 25, 12:03 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Sullivan	6 hr
Dec 25, 2:58 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Cheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan	4 hr

Nearby

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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.