Flood, Piscataquis
- When
- February 5, 2:50 PM EST to February 6, 10:00 AM EST
- Where
- Piscataquis County, Milo
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.250, -68.983
Flood in Maine, February 5 to 6, 2006
Low pressure tracking north across Maine brought heavy rain to the region. 00 inches were reported across much of Piscataquis county.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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.
Low pressure tracking north across Maine brought heavy rain to the region. Rainfall totals of between 1.00 and 2.00 inches were reported across much of Piscataquis county. The combination of rain and melting snow contributed to rising water levels on area rivers and streams...which in some cases overflowed their banks. Route 16 was closed in the vicinity of Kingsbury when the Kingsbury Stream overflowed on to the road. The Pleasant River road was closed in the vicinity of Milo when the Pleasant River overflowed on to the road. Several other brooks and streams also overflowed their banks.
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 Feb 5, 1:58 PM EST, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 1:58 PM EST, 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 158 PM EST SUN FEB 5 2006 .SYNOPSIS...AN OCCLUDED FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST BY THIS EVENING BRINGING STEADY RAIN TO AN END ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO DRIFT SLOWLY NORTH INTO LABRADOR WHICH WILL KEEP PLENTY OF CLOUDS AND POSSIBLE SNOW SHOWERS ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHERN MAINE INTO MID WEEK. && .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)... AN OCCLUDED FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. EXPECT SHOWERS TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT. OTHERWISE EXPECT A LULL IN THE SHOWER ACTIVITY OVERNIGHT. A SECONDARY COLD FRONT/TROF WILL THEN APPROACH THE REGION LATE TONIGHT AND THEN MOVE ACROSS DURING MONDAY. DECIDED TO GO LIKELY POPS ACROSS NORTHWEST ZONES ON MONDAY WITH UPPER LOW DRIFTING ACROSS QUEBEC AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOWING STEEPENING LAPSE RATES. ALSO NOTED SOME SMALL CAPE AS WELL THUS THINK THERE COULD BE A PRETTY GOOD BURST OF SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN ZONES WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS FEATURE. THIS WILL ALSO MARK THE RETURN OF MUCH COLDER AIR TO THE REGION MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WITH SOME LINGERING CAA SNOW SHOWERS OR FLURRIES MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS THROUGH TUESDAY. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)... LONGER RANGE MODELS CONT TO INDICATE SEVERAL WEAK S/WVS IN A WNW FLOW REGIME WHICH WILL GIVE CLDS...FLURRIES AND SN SHWRS TO MSLY NRN PTNS OF THE REGION THRU WED. AFT BREIF BREAK WED NGT...ANOTHER CLIPPER S/WV WILL INFLUENCE MSLY NRN PTNS OF THE FA THU. PERHAPS THE NEXT SIGNIFICANT SN EVENT WILL NOT BE TIL LATE NEXT WEEKEND...WHEN SOME SORT OF COASTAL LOW WILL BE MOVING NE JUST OFF THE NEW ENG COAST. WENT WITH CHC SN POPS FOR CNTRL/DOWNEAST AREAS WITH THIS SYSTEM GIVEN HOW FAR OUT IN TIME THIS EVENT IS. OTHERWISE...WENT WITH A BLEND OF HPC/06Z GFS DATA FOR FCST PARAMETERS IN THE LONG RANGE...XCPT USED AN HPC/GFS ENSBLEND FOR HI/LOW TEMPS. && .AVIATION... IFR CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TO MVFR/VFR CONDITIONS SW TO NE ACROSS THE FA THIS EVE INTO THE LATE NGT HRS. MVFR CIGS WILL LAST THE LONGEST ACROSS CAR/PQI BEFORE RISING TO VFR MON MORN. && .MARINE... WILL CONT WITH GALE WARNING FOR WRLY WINDS BEHIND THE OCCLUDDED FRONT TONIGHT INTO MON...BEFORE SUBSIDING TO SCA CONDITONS BY MON NGT. IN THE LONGE TERM...NO HEADLINES GREATER THAN SCA ANTICIPATED IN THE LONG TERM ATTM. && .CAR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MARINE...GALE WARNING FOR ANZ050 UNTIL 5 PM MONDAY. && SHORT TERM/MARINE...DUDA LONG TERM/MARINE...VJN AVIATION...SMF
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 5, 4:15 AM EST, 10 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 415 AM EST SUN FEB 5 2006 ANZ050-MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-060915- COASTAL WATERS FROM EASTPORT ME TO STONINGTON ME OUT 25 NM- NORTHWEST AROOSTOOK-NORTHEAST AROOSTOOK-NORTHERN SOMERSET- NORTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN PENOBSCOT-SOUTHEAST AROOSTOOK- CENTRAL PISCATAQUIS-CENTRAL PENOBSCOT-SOUTHERN PENOBSCOT- INTERIOR HANCOCK-CENTRAL WASHINGTON-COASTAL HANCOCK- COASTAL WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN PISCATAQUIS-NORTHERN WASHINGTON- 415 AM EST SUN FEB 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND EASTERN MAINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY FOR A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET THROUGH MID MORNING. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PRODUCT /PWMWSWCAR/ FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. ALSO A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COASTAL HANCOCK AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES THROUGH THIS MORNING. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PRODUCT /PWMNPWCAR/ FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT ANY ICE ACCUMULATION RECEIVED ACROSS NORTHERN AROOSTOOK COUNTY AND STRONG WINDS AFFECTING COASTAL HANCOCK AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES. FITZSIMMONS
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, February 5, 2006
- Heavy Snow in New York, February 5 to 7, 2006
- Winter Weather in Alaska, February 5 to 6, 2006
- Heavy Snow in Alaska, February 5 to 6, 2006
- Winter Storm in Michigan, February 5 to 6, 2006
- High Surf in Hawaii, February 5 to 11, 2006
- Winter Storm in Michigan, February 5, 2006
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, February 5 to 6, 2006
- Heavy Snow in New York, February 5 to 7, 2006
- High Wind in Colorado, February 5, 2006
- High Wind in Colorado, February 5, 2006
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, February 5 to 6, 2006
More
Every storm in Maine in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Maine, February 2006
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: 5492451.