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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Gray, ME

July 8, 2023Cheshire County, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2023, 7:45 PM EDT for Cheshire County, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 107 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 8, 2023, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2023, 9:32 PM EDT
In force
107 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Cheshire County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2023-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 387 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2023-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 8, 6:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 6:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 1:05 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXFranklin, Somerset49 min
Jul 8, 1:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXFranklin, Somerset4 hr
Jul 8, 3:09 PM EDTFlood WatchGYXCumberland, Franklin, Oxford64 hr
Jul 8, 6:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXFranklin, Somerset3 hr
Jul 8, 3:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCoos, Grafton4 hr
Jul 8, 5:32 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton5 hr
Jul 8, 5:49 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCoos92 min
Jul 8, 6:21 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCheshire, Merrimack, Sullivan114 min
Jul 8, 6:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton3 hr
Jul 8, 7:20 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXGrafton, Merrimack, Sullivan103 min

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