Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1988, 5:58 PM EDT for York County, Maine. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1988, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1988, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County York County, ME
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 6:25 PM EDT | Hail 1 | York, ME | |
| Jul 17, 6:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | York, ME |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KPWM 172200
SVRPWM
MEC031-172300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND ME
558 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PORTLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN MAINE
...YORK
AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN KITTERY AND BIDDEFORD.
AT 550 RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF DOVER NEW
HAMPSHIRE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS YORK
COUNTY AND THEN MOVE OFFSHORE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORD NH 125 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING INTO SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE... AT 115 PM RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE CONCORD AREA AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER BAND OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE CURRENTLY LOCATED ALONG THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY...STRETCHING FROM HAVERHILL TO LEBANON TO NEAR CLAREMONT. THIS BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS. KRM
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 2:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORD NH 200 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE... AT 200 PM RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE HEAVIEST BAND STRETCHED FROM NEAR SQUAM LAKE SOUTHWEST TO NEAR LAKE SUNAPEE. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY QUICKLY TO T HE EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS BAND OF THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE THROUGH THE STATE IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. MORE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. KRM
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORD NH 440 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE... AT 435 PM RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE HEAVIEST BAND STRETCHED FROM JUST SOUTH OF SQUAM LAKE SOUTHWEST TO NEAR HILLSBORO. ANOTHER BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY. THESE STORMS SHOULD ENTER THE CENTRAL PART OF STATE WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. KRM
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:29 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORD NH 525 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE... AT 520 PM RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE. THE HEAVIEST BAND STRETCHED FROM NEAR WOLFBORO SOUTH TO BARNSTEAD THEN SOUTHWEST TO CONCORD. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST SULLIVAN COUNTY. ANOTHER BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED MOVING FROM VERMONT INTO CHESHIRE COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. KRM
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.