Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 2:10 PM EDT for York County, Maine. It was in force for 50 min. 4 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 8, 1996, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County York County, ME
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:25 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Shapleigh, ME | |
| Jul 8, 2:35 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Waterboro, ME | |
| Jul 8, 2:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Saco, ME | |
| Jul 8, 2:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Old Orchard Beach, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPWM 081812 SVRPWM MEC031-081900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 210 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN MAINE ...YORK COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 2 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CROSSING INTO YORK COUNTY FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE. THIS STORM WAS NEAR THE ACTON/SHAPLEIGH AREA AND MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DIME-SIZE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AS IT HEADS TOWARD BUXTON, MAINE. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Oxford | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Kennebec | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Knox, Lincoln, Waldo | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Androscoggin, Kennebec | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.