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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Caribou, ME

March 10, 2024Penobscot County, Maine

NWS Caribou, ME issued this river flood warning at Mar 10, 2024, 7:03 AM EDT for Penobscot County, Maine. It took effect at Mar 10, 2024, 10:53 AM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2024, 7:03 AM EDT (11:03 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 10, 2024, 10:53 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 10, 2024, 1:33 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Caribou, ME
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Penobscot County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Penobscot River at Bangor (BPRM1). The gauge peaked at 12.48 ft at Mar 10, 2024, 11:00 AM EDT.

Action stage: 11 ft
Minor stage: 11.6 ft
Moderate stage: 13 ft
Major stage: 15 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01037050, 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 Caribou, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Mar 10, 5:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 5:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 3:19 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	CAR	Hancock, Washington	11 hr
Mar 10, 5:01 PM EDT	Gale Warning	CAR		45 hr
Mar 10, 5:53 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	CAR	Penobscot, Piscataquis	27 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.