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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Gray, ME

July 27, 1995Piscataquis County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 7:51 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1995, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Piscataquis County, ME

The nearest sounding before it

Caribou, ME (KCAR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 1995-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Caribou, ME at 12:00Z on 1995-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -66 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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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 51 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 45 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCumberland48 min
Jul 27, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXPenobscot57 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.