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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Gray, ME

June 17, 2023Grafton County, Merrimack County, Sullivan County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2023, 1:45 PM EDT for Grafton County, Merrimack County, Sullivan 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
Jun 17, 2023, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2023, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Grafton County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Sullivan County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2023-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2023-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:01 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryGYX33 hr
Jun 17, 6:43 AM EDTFlood WatchGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln and 5 more14 hr
Jun 17, 10:46 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCumberland, York4 hr
Jun 17, 5:33 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGYXCumberland, York3 hr
Jun 17, 9:35 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCheshire, Sullivan4 hr
Jun 17, 11:29 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan4 hr
Jun 17, 2:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXGrafton, Sullivan3 hr
Jun 17, 2:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXGrafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan3 hr
Jun 17, 3:14 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan3 hr
Jun 17, 5:26 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGYXCheshire, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan3 hr
Jun 17, 5:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Hampshire, 2023Every flash flood warning in 2023

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.