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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gray, ME

July 8, 1995Merrimack County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 4:14 PM EDT for Merrimack County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1995, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Merrimack County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 1995-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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 1995-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KPWM 082009 RRA
SVRPWM
NHC013-082115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
414 PM EDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
   ...MERRIMACK COUNTY
 
AT 405 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS OBSERVING A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF HENNIKER IN MERRIMACK COUNTY. THIS STORM
WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH IN ADDITION TO TORRENTIAL
RAIN AND VIVID LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND
WILL AFFECT MUCH OF NORTHERN MERRIMACK COUNTY DURING THE 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.
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FITZSIMMONS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Grafton56 min
Jul 8, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 1995Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.