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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Gray, ME

August 12, 1995Kennebec County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1995, 2:58 PM EDT for Kennebec County, Maine. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1995, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Kennebec County, ME

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1995-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 590 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, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 1995-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 3:40 PM EDTTornado WarningGYXKennebec65 min
Aug 12, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXKnox, Lincoln66 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.