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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Gray, ME

July 27, 1995Penobscot County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 7:18 PM EDT for Penobscot County, Maine. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1995, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Gray, ME
Area: Whole counties

County Penobscot County, ME

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPWM 272319 RRA
SVRPWM
MEC019-280015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
718 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  MAINE
 
   ...NORTHERN PENOBSCOT COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
7 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF MILLINOCKET. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND
POSSIBLE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. LOCAL DRAINAGE AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING
IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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

Local storm report, Jul 27, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
600 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995

THIS A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS FOR THURSDAY
AFTERNOON...JULY 27 1995.  ALL TIMES EDT AND ARE ESTIMATED.

TIME (EDT) ...CITY LOCATION...  STATE   EVENT/REMARKS
           ...COUNTY (CTY)...

500  PM    STANDISH              ME     TREES AND POWERLINES DOWNED BY
           CUMBERLAND CTY               WIND ALONG WHITE BRIDGE ROAD.

500  PM    GORHAM                ME    SEVERAL TREE LIMBS BLOWN ONTO
           CUMBERLAND CTY              WIRES IN WHITE ROCK SECTION.

500  PM    WINDHAM               ME    TREES DOWNED BY WIND BETWEEN
           CUMBERLAND CTY              WINDHAM CENTER AND SOUTH WINDHAM.

515  PM    FALMOUTH              ME    SEVERAL LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ON WIRES
           CUMBERLAND CTY              IN VICINITY OF BROOK ROAD.

ES/WSFO GRAY ME

Local storm report, Jul 27, 6:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
600 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995

THIS A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS FOR THURSDAY
AFTERNOON...JULY 27 1995.  ALL TIMES EDT AND ARE ESTIMATED.

TIME (EDT) ...CITY LOCATION...  STATE   EVENT/REMARKS
           ...COUNTY (CTY)...

500  PM    STANDISH              ME     TREES AND POWERLINES DOWNED BY
           CUMBERLAND CTY               WIND ALONG WHITE BRIDGE ROAD.

500  PM    GORHAM                ME    SEVERAL TREE LIMBS BLOWN ONTO
           CUMBERLAND CTY              WIRES IN WHITE ROCK SECTION.

500  PM    WINDHAM               ME    TREES DOWNED BY WIND BETWEEN
           CUMBERLAND CTY              WINDHAM CENTER AND nSOUTH WINDHAM.

515  PM    FALMOUTH              ME    SEVERAL LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ON WIRES
           CUMBERLAND CTY              IN VICINITY OF BROOK ROAD.

ES/WSFO GRAY ME

The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Cumberland	48 min
Jul 27, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GYX	Piscataquis	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.