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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Flood Warning

National Weather Service Gray ME

1233 PM EDT Fri Apr 12 2024



...The National Weather Service in Gray ME has issued a Flood 

Warning for the following rivers in Maine...



  Swift River At Roxbury affecting Oxford County.



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood 

deaths occur in vehicles.



Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/gray.



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MEC017-130445-

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/ROXM1.1.ER.240412T1630Z.240412T1800Z.240413T0400Z.UU/

1233 PM EDT Fri Apr 12 2024



...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON TO TOMORROW MORNING...



* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.



* WHERE...Swift River at Roxbury.



* WHEN...From this afternoon to tomorrow morning.



* IMPACTS...At 9.0 feet, Flood waters inundate Route 17 in Byron 

  near the intersection of Byron Village Road.



* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...

  - At 12:00 PM EDT Friday the stage was 6.4 feet.

  - Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 8.7

    feet this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage just

    after midnight tonight.

  - Flood stage is 7.0 feet.





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LAT...LON 4475 7070 4476 7059 4454 7050 4452 7060





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SJ