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River Flood Warning 13, NWS Gray, ME

December 23, 2022Oxford County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this river flood warning at Dec 23, 2022, 12:48 PM EST for Oxford County, Maine. It took effect at Dec 23, 2022, 3:12 PM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2022, 12:48 PM EST (17:48 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 23, 2022, 3:12 PM EST
Expired: Dec 24, 2022, 6:49 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 17:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Swift River at Roxbury (ROXM1). The gauge peaked at 8.20 ft at Dec 23, 2022, 8:00 PM EST.

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 Dec 23, 12:35 PM EST, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 12:35 PM EST, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 10:21 AM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 23, 11:57 AM EST, 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 23, 12:38 PM EST, 10 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 23, 5:14 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 4 more	7 hr
Dec 23, 6:34 AM EST	Hurricane Force Wind Warning	GYX		18 hr
Dec 23, 9:19 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland	2 hr
Dec 23, 11:04 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec, Sagadahoc	33 hr
Dec 23, 11:04 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec, Somerset	21 days
Dec 23, 11:04 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	39 hr
Dec 23, 11:04 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Kennebec	50 hr
Dec 23, 12:40 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset and 1 more	21 hr
Dec 23, 12:40 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford and 4 more	15 hr
Dec 23, 12:44 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford	28 hr
Dec 23, 2:10 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	GYX	Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, York	10 hr
Dec 23, 5:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GYX	York	57 min
Dec 23, 9:45 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Merrimack	63 hr
Dec 23, 10:02 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Hillsborough	12 hr
Dec 23, 11:09 AM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Merrimack	17 hr
Dec 23, 11:55 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack and 3 more	16 hr
Dec 23, 3:42 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	8 hr
Dec 23, 3:42 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	19 hr
Dec 23, 3:42 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Grafton	26 hr
Dec 23, 4:13 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GYX	Hillsborough	19 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.