Alert archive / Maine / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 2:50 PM EDT for York County, Maine. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1998, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
- Area
- Whole counties
County York County, ME
The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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
- 576 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 241853 RRA SVRPWM MEC031-241950- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 250 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MAINE * UNTIL 350 PM EDT * AT 250 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF PORTLAND OR 11 MILES NORTH OF SACO MOVING SOUT HEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SACO ABOUT 315 PM EDT OLD ORCHARD BEACH ABOUT 315 PM EDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! JSJ
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
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:23 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
BULLETIN- IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SPECIAL SHORT TERM FORECAST...THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 223 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 MEZ018-019-023-024-242025- .NOW... LOOK FOR A DEVELOPING AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS TO CROSS THE REGION THROUGH 330 PM OR SO. ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN AS THEY MOVEh THROUGH...PRODUCING STREET AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EASTERN YORK AND WESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...PASSING NEAR PORTLAND AFTER 315 PM. HAYES
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:23 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
BULLETIN- IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SPECIAL SHORT TERM FORECAST...THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 223 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 MEZ018-019-023-024-242025- .NOW... LOOK FOR A DEVELOPING AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS TO CROSS THE REGION THROUGH 330 PM OR SO. ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN AS THEY MOVEh THROUGH...PRODUCING STREET AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH EASTERN YORK AND WESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...PASSING NEAR PORTLAND AFTER 315 PM. HAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Penobscot | 46 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.