during the afternoon of the 13th. Flooding from the ice jam affected a portion of the North Howland Road near Hardy Brook.
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The episode as NWS CAR wrote it up.
An ice jam developed on the Piscataquis River...near the town of Maxfield...during the afternoon of the 13th. Flooding from the ice jam affected a portion of the North Howland Road near Hardy Brook. Varying water depths ranging from several inches...up to 18 inches...covered the road. Flooding persisted into the morning of the 15th when the ice jam moved and the river was able to undercut the jam allowing flood waters to recede.
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 Mar 13, 1:40 PM EST, 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 240 PM EDT SUN MAR 13 2011 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH OFF THE COAST TONIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN ON MONDAY THEN CREST OVER THE STATE MONDAY NIGHT. THE HIGH WILL MOVE SOUTH OF THE REGION ON TUESDAY. A WEAK TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL APPROACH LATE WEDNESDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH MONDAY/... HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO QUEBEC HAS PUSHED A COLD FRONT INTO THE AREA. THE FRONT WILL SLIDE SOUTH OF THE REGION TONIGHT AS NOTICEABLY COOLER AIR FILTERS IN FROM THE NORTH. SOME FLURRIES OR LIGHT SHOWERS MAY EFFECT THE AREA...MAINLY CENTRAL AND DOWNEAST...EARLY THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...SKIES WILL BEGIN TO CLEAR FROM NORTH TO SOUTH LATER TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. MONDAY AFTERNOON WILL TURN OUT MOSTLY SUNNY AND COOL OVER THE NORTH WITH PARTIAL SUNSHINE DOWNEAST. && .SHORT TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... XPCT A LARGE RDG OF HGH PRES TO XTND NE-SW ACROSS THE FA AT THE START OF THE SHORT TERM PD MON EVE... THIS RDG WILL PUSH SE OF THE AREA LATER MON NGT AND TUE ALLOWING A SWRLY FLOW OF MILDER AIR TO BEGIN OVERSPREADING THE REGION. BEFORE THIS OCCURS...XPCT A CLR AND VRY COLD NGT MON NGT INTO ERLY TUE W/ CLR SKIES/LGT WNDS AND IDEAL RAD COOLING CONDS. A NICE DAY ON TAP FOR TUE W/ MAINLY SUNNY SKIES AND FCST HGHS XPCTD TO REACH AOA THE FREEZING MARK ALL BUT FAR N AND NWRN AREAS AS LOW-LVL SW FLOW KICKS IN W/ THE DEPARTING SFC RDG SE OF THE AREA. ANOTHER MAINLY CLR NGT XPCTD TUE NGT INTO ERLY WED AM BUT NOT NEARLY AS COLD AS LOW-LVL SW FLOW PERSISTS AND CLDS BEGIN TO INCRS LATE AS THE NXT SYSTEM BEGINS TO APPROACH FROM THE W AND SW. XPCT A TROF OF LOW PRES TO LIFT ENEWRD ACROSS THE AREA LATER WED INTO WED NGT W/ CRITICAL THCKNS/BNDRY LAYER TEMPS SUGGESTING MAINLY A RAIN EVENT ALL BUT FAR N AND NWRN AREAS... && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... TROF OF LOW PRES DISCUSSED ABV IN THE SHORT TERM SECTION WILL CONT TO MV ACROSS THE AREA WED NGT AND BE E OF THE FA BY ERLY THU AM... XPCT A WEAK RDG OF HGH PRES TO BUILD QUICKLY ACROSS THE REGION BY LATER THU THEN MV OFF TO THE E BY THU NGT AS THE NXT SYSTEM SLIDES ACROSS SRN ONT AND INTO WRN QUEBEC ON FRI. APPEARS THIS SYSTEM WILL TRACK ACROSS OR JUST N OF THE CROWN OF MAINE LATER FRI AND FRI NGT W/ SOME MXD PRECIP OR SNOW FAR N AND MAINLY RAIN TO THE S. THIS SYSTEM MVS E OF THE REGION BY LATE SAT W/ HGH PRES AND QUIET WX XPCTD ON SUN. LOADED GMOS W/ THE USUAL MINOR ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED... .HYDROLOGY... RPTS RCVD THIS AM CONCERNING FLOODING IN THE TOWN OF MATTAWAMKEAG DUE TO AN ICE JAM AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE MATTAWAMKEAG AND PENOBSCOT RIVERS... LATEST RPTS INDICATE NO CHG W/ THE JAM HOLDING FIRM. ICE LVLS CONT JUST A FOOT OR SO BLO THE RT 2 BRIDGE AND THE RVR ROAD ON THE N SIDE OF THE MATTAWAMKEAG IMPASSABLE AND CURRENTLY CLOSED W/ WATER AS MUCH AS 3 FT DEEP IN SPOTS. WILL CONT THE FLOOD WRNG ISSUED THIS AM FOR EAST CENTRAL PENOBSCOT CNTY...SPECIFICALLY FOR THE TOWN OF MATTAWAMKEAG...GOING THRU 9 PM THIS EVE... ALL OTHER RVRS APPEAR STABLE ATTM... && .AVIATION /18Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... NEAR TERM: MVFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE NORTH WILL IMPROVE TO VFR THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE AREA TONIGHT INTO MONDAY. SHORT TERM: VFR CONDS XPCTD MON NGT THRU TUE NGT W/ CONDS XPCTD TO DETERIORATE TO MVFR OR IFR LATER WED AS A TROF OF LOW PRES SWINGS ACROSS THE REGION. THESE CONDS WILL PERSIST INTO WED NGT W/ IMPROVEMENT TO VFR LATER WED NGT AS THIS SYSTEM PUSHES E OF THE FA. VFR CONDS SHOULD THEN PERSIST THRU THU NGT W/ ANOTHER ROUND OF MVFR/IFR XPCTD FROM LATE THU NGT THRU FRI AS THE NXT WX SYSTEM CROSSES THE REGION. && .MARINE... NEAR TERM: AN SCA FOR GUSTY WINDS AND SEAS OVER 5 FT WILL BE UP THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN WILL BRING DIMINISHING WINDS SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SHORT TERM: WNDS/SEAS XPCTD TO REMAIN BLO SCA LVLS INTO WED W/ MINIMAL SCA CONDS PSBL LATER WED AS A TROF OF LOW PRES SWINGS EWRD ACROSS THE WATERS... && .CAR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ME...NONE. MARINE...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY UNTIL 1 PM EDT MONDAY FOR ANZ050>052. && NEAR TERM...BLOOMER SHORT TERM...KHW LONG TERM...KHW AVIATION...BLOOMER MARINE...BLOOMER/KHW
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME 229 PM EDT SUN MAR 13 2011 MEZ001>006-010-011-015>017-029>032-141830- 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- 229 PM EDT SUN MAR 13 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL MAINE...NORTH CENTRAL MAINE...NORTHERN MAINE...SOUTHEAST MAINE AND WEST CENTRAL MAINE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ050>052-141830- COASTAL WATERS FROM EASTPORT ME TO SCHOODIC POINT ME OUT 25 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT ME TO STONINGTON ME OUT 25 NM- INTRACOASTAL WATERS FROM SCHOODIC POINT ME TO STONINGTON ME- 229 PM EDT SUN MAR 13 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
An ice jam on the Piscataquis River at the town of Maxfield produced minor flooding along a portion of the North Howland Road.
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