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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Gray, ME

July 15, 2023Grafton County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2023, 9:46 PM EDT for Grafton County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 15, 2023, 9:46 PM EDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2023, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Grafton County, NH

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 353 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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 15, 8:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 8:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 3:12 PM EDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 15, 6:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 6:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 8:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 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 15, 8:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Somerset	6 hr
Jul 15, 8:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Oxford	3 hr
Jul 16, 7:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Lincoln, Oxford, Sagadahoc	42 min
Jul 16, 8:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	York	4 hr
Jul 16, 12:18 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford	25 hr
Jul 16, 12:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford	5 hr
Jul 16, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GYX		53 min
Jul 16, 1:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford, York	5 hr
Jul 16, 2:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford, York	6 hr
Jul 16, 2:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford	3 hr
Jul 16, 4:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Somerset, Waldo	6 hr
Jul 16, 4:04 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Oxford	19 hr
Jul 16, 6:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Cumberland, Oxford, York	11 hr
Jul 15, 9:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Grafton	3 hr
Jul 16, 7:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Cheshire, Hillsborough	4 hr
Jul 16, 8:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GYX	Rockingham	24 min
Jul 16, 8:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GYX	Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham	3 hr
Jul 16, 8:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GYX	Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham	31 min
Jul 16, 9:01 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GYX	Hillsborough, Rockingham	16 min
Jul 16, 9:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Rockingham	41 min
Jul 16, 9:51 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GYX	Rockingham, Strafford	24 min
Jul 16, 10:16 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	GYX	Hillsborough	29 min
Jul 16, 10:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Strafford	6 hr
Jul 16, 11:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GYX	Belknap, Cheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham	7 hr
Jul 16, 11:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Strafford	6 hr
Jul 16, 11:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Cheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 16, 12:19 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Grafton	7 hr
Jul 16, 1:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	GYX	Belknap, Carroll, Strafford	5 hr
Jul 16, 2:16 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Merrimack	49 hr
Jul 16, 4:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GYX	Carroll	6 hr
Jul 16, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GYX	Belknap, Merrimack	12 hr
Jul 16, 7:30 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GYX	Merrimack	10 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.