Flash Flood, Aroostook
- When
- June 16, 9:00 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Aroostook County, St Francis
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.659, -68.599 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Maine, June 16, 2001
Water overflowed onto roads from several ditches.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS CAR wrote it up.
Water overflowed onto roads from several ditches.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 16, 2:00 PM EST, 7 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:00 PM EST, 7 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 300 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS QUEBEC PROVINCE TONIGHT. THIS COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH WESTERN MAINE LATE TONIGHT AND THEN SLOWLY CROSS THE STATE SUNDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WITH COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL OVERSPREAD THE STATE ON MONDAY. DISCUSSION... SAT PIX SHOW SOME CONVECTIVE BUILDUPS OVER THE WRN MTNS ATTM AS WEAK INITIAL SHORT WAVE LIFTS NEWRD ACROSS NWRN NEW ENGLAND. THIS FEATURE CLIPS NRN AREAS LATE TONIGHT SO WILL KEEP LOW CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE N TONIGHT. FOR SUN...FRONT SLOWLY APPROACHES AND CROSSES THE CWA. FRONT WILL BE WEAKENING AS IT PUSHES EWRD INTO STRONG RIDGE JUST E OF THE AREA. AS A RESULT...FEEL CAT POPS FOR SUN MAY BE A LITTLE TOO HIGH AND WILL LOWER JUST A BIT. FRONT SLOWLY EXITS CWA SUN NIGHT AND WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS GOING FOR SRN/SERN AREAS THRU MIDNIGHT WHILE NWRN AREAS EXPECTED TO CLEAR OUT ERLY SUN EVE... REMNANTS OF ALLISON COULD STILL BE A FACTOR ACROSS OUR DOWNEAST AREAS SUN NIGHT AND THIS WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY BUT FOR NOW HAVE FOLLOWED THE LESS PESSIMISTIC SOLN OF THE ETA AFTER COORD W/ GYX... NICE WX RETURNS FOR MON AS COOLER AND DRIER AIR OVERSPREADS THE CWA BEHIND TOMORROW/S SYSTEM. IN THE EXTENDED...NEXT FRONT EXPECTED TO APPROACH LATE TUE AND CROSS THE AREA BY ERLY WED. WARM TEMPS RETURN ON TUE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT AND HAVE BUMPED UP TEMPS ACCORDINGLY. AVN DEVELOPS A SIGNIFICANT WAVE ALONG THIS FRONT AND TRACKS IT EWRD ACROSS THE CWA LATER WED THRU ERLY THU. CANADIAN ONLY HINTS AT THIS SCENARIO W/ THE OLDER EURO DEPICTING A STRONG COLD TO CROSS THE REGION WED W/ NO SFC WAVE TO FOLLOW...JUST MUCH COOLER AIR. ALL SOLNS SUPPORT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND WED BUT AVN APPEARS OVERDONE IN REFERENCE TO SFC LOW DEVELOPMENT WHILE THE EURO APPEARS TO BE TOO STRONG W/ THE CAA TO FOLLOW THE FRONT. WILL MENTION CHANCE SHOWERS ALL AREAS W/ COOLER TEMPS FOR WED/THU...BUT NOT AS DRASTIC AS INDICATED BY THE EURO... COASTAL WATERS...PESKY FOG/STRATUS LURKING JUST OFF OUR DOWNEAST COAST AND EXPECT THIS TO BE A FACTOR FOR OUR WATERS OVERNIGHT W/ LITTLE CHANGE IN WIND/AIRMASS CONDS. OTHERWISE...WINDS/SEAS EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO JUST BLO SCA ON SUN AS FRONT APPROACHES. .CAR...NONE. KHW
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, June 16 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 16 to 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 16, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 16, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 16, 2001
- Hail in Kansas, June 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Maine in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, June 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5253674.