Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1997, 5:07 PM EDT for Kennebec County, Maine. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 21, 1997, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kennebec County, ME
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 | Waterville Arpt, 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, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPWM 212105 RRA SVRPWM MEC011-212105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 507 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN MAINE ...KENNEBEC COUNTY AT 504 PM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL OVER THE BELGRADE LAKES JUST WEST OF OAKLAND. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR WATERVILLE BY 530 PM. TORNADOS CAN OCCUR IN THUNDERSTORMS. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JC/NWSFO GYX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Somerset | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Waldo | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.