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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Gray, ME

July 17, 1998Piscataquis County, Maine

NWS Gray, ME issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT for Piscataquis County, Maine. It was in force for 61 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
Jul 17, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1998, 6:05 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME
Area
Whole counties

County Piscataquis County, ME

The radar

The Caribou radar (KCBW), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 17, 5:25 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 52Lily Bay, 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 text

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

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

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 4:38 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 8:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXSomerset4 hr
Jul 16, 8:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXSomerset62 min
Jul 17, 6:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXPiscataquis2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maine, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.