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Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2023, 3:12 PM EDT for Franklin County, Somerset County, Maine. It was in force for 2 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
- Aug 13, 2023, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2023, 5:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Franklin County, ME, Somerset County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Aug 13, 2:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 13, 2:16 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 13, 12:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Cumberland | 29 min |
| Aug 13, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cumberland | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Franklin | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 55 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 2:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Oxford, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Somerset | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | York | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Somerset | 53 min |
| Aug 13, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec, Somerset | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | York | 23 min |
| Aug 13, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GYX | 83 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Oxford | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | York | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Kennebec | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Kennebec, Oxford | 54 min |
| Aug 13, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 53 min |
| Aug 13, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Sagadahoc | 48 min |
| Aug 13, 5:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GYX | Franklin, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Androscoggin | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Cumberland | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 12:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Belknap | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Coos | 24 min |
| Aug 13, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GYX | Rockingham | 63 min |
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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.